{"id":1751895,"date":"2022-11-26T08:18:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T13:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1751895"},"modified":"2022-11-26T08:33:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T13:33:12","slug":"former-cia-analyst-declares-freedom-of-speech-is-nonsense-on-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cia-analyst-declares-freedom-of-speech-is-nonsense-on-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CIA Analyst Declares &#8220;Freedom of Speech Is Nonsense&#8221; on CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-cia-analyst-declares-freedom-of-speech-is-nonsense-on-cnn%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1751895&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/e8cbb083-32db-48f3-8692-2d0b7870f12e-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Did you know that freedom of speech is \u201cnonsense?\u201d That\u2019s the word from CNN, which let a former CIA flunky spew falsehoods in an attempt to smear Elon Musk\u2019s management of Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>As RedState <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/jeffc\/2022\/11\/25\/elon-musk-announces-general-amnesty-for-suspended-twitter-accounts-and-the-left-has-another-meltdown-n663796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously reported<\/a>, Musk is set to grant a \u201cgeneral amnesty\u201d to formerly banned accounts. There will be some exceptions if those accounts broke the law or engaged in targeted calls for violence, but a deluge of accounts that simply broke leftwing orthodoxy are set to return.<\/p>\n<p>That has the clowns over at CNN shaking in terror, so much so that they are willing to boot basic constitutional principles in the process.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bob Baer, cont\u2019d: \u201cIt\u2019s not right. And you know, this freedom of speech is just nonsense because you can\u2019t go into a movie theater and yell \u2018fire.\u2019 It\u2019s against the law. What Putin is going to do &#038; the Russians is they\u2019re going to use this as a vehicle to save himself in Ukraine\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3FnuOZDiSd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/3FnuOZDiSd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1596467806366666752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Everything is about Vladimir Putin to these people. According to them, he stalks the shadows like some bizarro Batman, ready to pounce at any moment with memes and \u201cdisinformation.\u201d Of course, Robert Baer is in the same camp of flacks who insisted that Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop was Russian disinformation, and we all saw how that turned out.<\/p>\n<p>Baer\u2019s complaints are, to put it succinctly, nonsense. One, Twitter was overrun with fake accounts prior to Musk\u2019s acquisition of it. Two, the idea that past regulations kept Putin\u2019s regime off Twitter is just laughable. Does anyone really believe that Russia was stopped in its tracks from posting on social media because the last iteration of Twitter banned accounts for saying COVID-19 came from a Chinese lab? I\u2019m pretty sure the Russians, as much as I\u2019ve dogged on their capabilities, are capable of spoofing an IP and posting on Twitter if they want.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of China, isn\u2019t it neat how CNN and the rest never seem to have a problem with TikTok? I mean, if they are so terrified of foreign influence on social media, you\u2019d think they\u2019d be screaming from the rooftops about one of the largest social media companies being owned by the Chicoms. Never mind that TikTok happens to be most popular among the youngest, most impressionable generation.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s Baer\u2019s claim that you can\u2019t go to a movie theater and yell fire. Yes, yes you can. That talking point has been debunked more times than I can count (the case that found that was long ago overturned), and yet, leftwing hacks just keep saying it. Prohibitions of free speech are constitutionally limited to direct incitement of violence and legally-provable defamation. Just about anything else goes. Certainly, freedom of speech covers being able to post one\u2019s thoughts on social media, even if the companies themselves can choose to curate as private entities.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, how in the world is Putin going to \u201csave himself\u201d in Ukraine by using accounts on Twitter? That\u2019s probably one of the dumbest suggestions I\u2019ve seen surrounding this topic. I\u2019d critique it more, but it\u2019s so ridiculous as to be dismissed outright.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m constantly struck by just how unimpressive and mediocre these bureaucrats-turned-talking heads are. Is this really the kind of person that makes a career in the federal government as an \u201canalyst?\u201d Come to think of it, given the history of the CIA, that actually makes a lot of sense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\nTrending on Redstate Video\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that freedom of speech is \u201cnonsense?\u201d That\u2019s the word from CNN, which let a former CIA flunky spew falsehoods in an attempt to smear Elon Musk\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1751898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}