An Apparent Dichotomy Exists Between Corporate & Government Free Speech Censorship

Op-Ed by Catherine J. Frompovich


First Amendment, Bill of Rights, U.S. Constitution

Question 1

How come corporations—especially Internet telecommunications networks and their owners, social networks and self-appointed left-wing activist censors, can curtail and abridge guaranteed freedom of speech for citizens, while the U.S. Government stands by abetting a serious abrogation of the U.S. Constitution First Amendment Bill of Rights by self-appointed ‘police state’ activist individuals and/or corporations?

Question 2

What role does the 2010 SCOTUS decision giving corporations the same rights as people play in such censorship?



Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion found that the BCRA §203 prohibition of all independent expenditures by corporations and unions violated the First Amendment’s protection of free speech.[29] The majority wrote, “If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech.”

Source: Wikipedia

Question 3

If SCOTUS majority ruled the First Amendment “prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens [e.g., corporations, private businesses, Internet platforms, etc.] for simply engaging in political speech,” how did such a decision morph into apparently ‘legally’ enforced censorship to control public interest dialogue, “Town Hall discussions,” educational memes and differing scientific research data regarding vital subjects for citizens to learn about and discuss such as:

  • Health: specifically fraudulent science dispensed by vested interests, e.g., pharmaceutical companies, professional trade associations, and government regulatory agencies who decidedly and arbitrarily censor and interrupt valid critiques, questions and discussion boards;
  • Opposition Science: by denying, lying, proselytizing and fraudulently convincing citizens regarding consensus science as opposed to long-established, ethical scientific origins of questioning research;
  • Politics: by creating a toxic political environment to promote a shift to radical leftist thinking and science while establishing an ultimate censorship police state deliberately defrauding the world into believing the United States of America is a free country enjoying Constitutional rights.
  • How did a SCOTUS ruling on political campaign spending morph into an accepted general censorship of the Internet, personal emails, individual web sites and the demonetization of selected online purveyors?
  • Why is Congress keeping quiet regarding the trashing of the First Amendment by corporations?

“If we’ve been bamboozled long enough (even in medical school), we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been “taken”. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” –  … Carl Saganauthor of “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

The present-day censorship by vested interests is comparable to the book-burning of the German Nazi regime:

The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (the “DSt”) to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism.

Source: Wikipedia

Anything sound familiar?

And then there’s this explanation:






Currently, it’s modern Internet technology information platforms [with backdoors to federal government ‘secret ops’ agencies] that have become ‘information burning’ censors.  How much longer will we allow that to continue?

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