Perspective: The wrongness of letting government tell us to ‘shut up—or else’
By Gene Policinski, Freedom Forum Senior Fellow for the First Amendment
There may be no worse assault on our freedom of speech than a law that would permit the government to tell us to “shut up” when it comes to discussion and debate on a major social issue of our time – and to punish us if we don’t.
Freedom of speech under the First Amendment is rooted in the concept of a “marketplace of ideas…