{"id":4984,"date":"2021-03-22T23:18:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T23:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/22\/the-ongoing-death-of-free-speech-prominent-aclu-lawyer-cheers-suppression-of-a-new-book-glenn-greenwald\/"},"modified":"2021-03-22T23:18:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T23:18:23","slug":"the-ongoing-death-of-free-speech-prominent-aclu-lawyer-cheers-suppression-of-a-new-book-glenn-greenwald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/22\/the-ongoing-death-of-free-speech-prominent-aclu-lawyer-cheers-suppression-of-a-new-book-glenn-greenwald\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ongoing Death of Free Speech: Prominent ACLU Lawyer Cheers Suppression of a New Book &#8211; Glenn Greenwald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Excellent essay by Greenwald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>That speech is \u201cdangerous\u201d and \u201cincites violence\u201d and therefore must be stifled has been the cry of censors for centuries. It is the claim used to try to silence\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/repository.upenn.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1192&#038;context=curej\">Communists during<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/119516\/report-book-burning-under-huac-and-eisenhower\">the Cold War<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/04\/13\/the_real_criminals_in_the_tarek_mehanna_case\/\">Muslims<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/mar\/19\/preemptive-prosecution-muslims-cointelpro\">during<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2015\/01\/06\/police-increasingly-monitoring-criminalizing-online-speech\/\">the War on Terror<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/12\/17\/israel-texas-anti-bds-law\/\">pro-Palestinian<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/02\/16\/greatest-threat-to-free-speech-in-the-west-criminalizing-activism-against-israeli-occupation\/\">activists<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ccrjustice.org\/the-palestine-exception\">now<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/the-ongoing-death-of-free-speech\">https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/the-ongoing-death-of-free-speech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent essay by Greenwald. That speech is \u201cdangerous\u201d and \u201cincites violence\u201d and therefore must be stifled has been the cry of censors for centuries. It is the claim used to try to silence\u00a0Communists during\u00a0the Cold War,\u00a0Muslims\u00a0during\u00a0the War on Terror, and\u00a0pro-Palestinian\u00a0activists\u00a0now. https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/the-ongoing-death-of-free-speech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1io","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}