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This one is a tour de force. All the way back to Nov of last year I wrote a piece on the subject of freedom of speech for this very news-letter (https://www.freemennewsletter.com/p/free-speech-is-not-free?utm_source=publication-search)

I am old enough to remember three primary TV networks, one PBS, and a few dominant news papers. The bad was not only their biases but they were gatekeepers of information and guarded their position with jealousy. The good news was that given the size of the audiences they wanted, and an advertising model as opposed to subs, they took (not always but often) their position with seriousness. In the Wild West of information today attention is the coin of the realm. It is why Tucker Carlson would host a WWII revisionist whose primary premise is that Hitler was misunderstood and Churchill was the villain. Also why Alex Jones would take such a controversial, and despicable position. It worked! Well up until the point the families rightly destroyed his platform.

Finally, one of the joys of writing for the Freemen News is the lack of tribalism. Because Justin and Scott (within limits of course!) allow and enable us to write our own pieces, we avoid the tribalism now so prominent on the right. Twitter in the past week featured a host of fools rushing to support Jones for no other reason than he is in the tribe.

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