Why Ron DeSantis and Musk are ‘Free Speech’ hypocrites: Ari Melber’s legal breakdown

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MSNBC’s Ari Melber discusses the legal career of his former boss, First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, whose landmark free speech cases helped define American precedents from the “Pentagon Papers” to reporters’ privilege rules – plus the new PBS documentary “Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely.” (Check out The Beat’s playlist: https://msnbc.com/ari Connect with Ari Melber: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber)

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    @wesleyhitchcock4414

    I am almost exclusively a defender of free speach. Even those expressions i find reprehensable because i want to know whom those who say things that go against every notion of decency, like white seperatists and what they usually say. I want to know what they look like and where they live. But i want to carve out one exception to unrestricted free speach. That being that i think there should be strict and binding rules as they would pertain to Politicians, Political Appointees, and Political Canidates and all staff related to those three categories. We have to think of it as an Employer-Employee scenario. Let us say we "own" the company, we "hire" the employee and then we give them the "company handbook" which states with reprocussions, violations of "company policy" and that is the Forbidding of Desiminating False Information and/or Lying in the public forum for Personal or Political Gain for any reason at any time as long as they are employed with our "company." Violating those rules would, as in any company grounds for discaplinary action, up to and including termination. It is the same as if sworn into a court room where the 1rst admendment is not applicable. In court you have to tell the truth and failing to do so may just make you wind up in jail. This is something our country needs and if such a law was in effect regarding Politics we certainly would not be dealing with what we are dealing with now and have endured for decades. This is not a naive thought. This is also not rocket science and if you believe that any Politician, Appointee, or Canidate should have carte' blanche' to lie to you and your fellow constituents then i question your integrety and your intelligence.

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    @jamesgeorge4874

    Rich a$$holes behaving as such has been normalized and glorified by musk, trump, tate, and the "Right" in general. Clarence Thomas is a perfect example, and his past and the right looking the other way, but attacking Bill Clinton was just the same old hypocricy…..

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    @gumbymofugga

    Elon Musk needs to have everything of his seized. That freak having that much influence over the course of humanity is just disgusting and dangerous.

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    @ikeokwesa5693

    Free speech isn't just a right wing privilege but a privilege for all. For reasons beyond comprehension right wing proselytizers like Musk and DeSantis and Trump, only they have the right to free speech and anything they abhor must be banned or prohibited! Calling that hypocrisy is putting in the mildest of terms, it's tyrrany!

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    @_davidturner

    Private investing is the best way to go about the market right now, especially for near retirees, I've been in touch with a wealth manager, netted 370k the last downturn, made it clear there's more to the markets than we average joes know.

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    @gringoboy701

    Republicans are the epitome of hypocrisy. They said leave abortion rights to the states because it is a state issue. The voters of Ohio vote to preserve abortion rights and republicans IMMEDIATELY work to circumvent their decision. Republicans aren't interested in what the people want. They only care about creating a dictatorship to serve their own desires.

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    @bento663

    Trump and Lula are the same type of stupid populists, ignorants and loosers…Each day I hear the stupid talks of Trump, I lost totaly my support for him…But Biden is a surprise, each day better and more realistic…without the USA and NATO military power the world nations would be already under control of imperializms from communist China, from terrorist Islam or from stalinist Putinazzi… God save USA and thanks for your help!!!

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    @katiboeheim7908

    These un punished immature bullies have been allowed for too long to speak…time to shut them down..if you support these disgusting wastes of oxygen don't think you won't be next ..if you wanna control people you're in the wrong country GET OUT

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    @CeeJay2.O

    It's crazy how much in today's society that particular people (like Musk) feel the need to go after others who disagree with them, thought that was the whole point, we as humans can agree to disagree but showing distain and acting hypocritical is just a reflection of their true beliefs, anything with Musk or similar idiots like him is why social media platforms are overrated and NOT for all walks of life, just some

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    @patriciamcclanahan2114

    People wake up for this country our fathers fought for our freedom of speech don’t let these people take it away got to see other countries news global ,Australian,Wion so much more out there going on our media not telling us

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