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Speaker 1 (00:05):
When did free speech need a passport? Welcome back to
hashtag go right for Peter Boycott. Let's talk about a
question that should never have to be asked, When did
free speech need a passport? Freedom of speech isn't a
global default. It's an American exception. We didn't inherit it
from a king. We carved it out of rebellion, and
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now it's under attack, not just from within our borders,
but from beyond them, across the Ocean's bureaucrats with polite
smiles and polished titles, regulators, commissioners, fact checkers are deciding
what you can say online. They call it quote regulated speech.
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Sound civilized, right, orderly reasonable until you realize what it
really means, government approved truth. Everything else becomes forbidden. This
isn't just a British oversight or a European quirk. It's
a test, a global experiment, to see if Americans will
defend their rights when the censorship doesn't come wrapped in
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the stars and stripes, but in the language of diplomacy.
If this lawsuit fails, global regulators will smell blood. They'll
know they can punish speech anywhere just by calling it
quote harmful, and the same political class that claims to
defend democracy in our constitutional public is quietly building a
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censorship system that quote, democracy cannot survive. Speech isn't meant
to be safe. Truth has always been dangerous to power,
and power has always feared the truth. Ronald Reagan wants warned,
quote freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction,
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and today we might add it's never more than one
regulation away from deletion. This isn't about one lawsuit or
one platform. It's about whether the Internet remains a digital
town square are becomes a global plantation where speech is
ration by ministries of truth. The First Amendment doesn't need
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to cross oceans. It just needs to stand its ground
right here on the shore where it was born. But
here's the thing. The threat doesn't stop with speech. The
same governments that silence you are wiring your streets, scanning
your faces and calling it quote innovation. From London to
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New Jersey, the surveillance state is spreading faster than any virus.
Every so called smart city camera, every biometric ID, EVERYAI
system that promotes and promises safety, they aren't protecting, They're
predicting you. They sell it as safety, They preach it
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as compliance and wrap it up in convenience. But it's control,
one data point at a time. While citizens scroll in silence,
the system builds its digital chains, and history won't call
it tyranny. It will call it automation. Antidote is awareness,
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defense is courage. The time to speak freely, loudly, and
unapologetically is now, because freedom isn't defended after it's gone.
It's defended every time you choose to speak when silence
would be easier. Remember, free speech doesn't need permission, it
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needs patriots. So don't forget to check out this full
article about what we just talked about today on go
writnews dot com and other events on there where we
don't whisper the truth, we broadcast it boaken and this
has been hashtag go on. Remember we fight for what's right,
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because it's time to go right. H