Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors

“Our government has moved past censorship to the larger project of changing the American personality,” Taibbi said. “They want a more obedient, timorous, fearful citizen.” (Alex Milan Tracy via Getty Images)

To small thinkers, free speech is a wilderness of potential threats. Thankfully, America wasn’t founded by small thinkers.

By Matt Taibbi

10.01.24 — U.S. Politics

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This article is based on a speech delivered by Matt Taibbi at the “Rescue the Republic” rally in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.

I was once taught you should always open an important speech by making reference to a shared experience.

So what do all of us at Rescue the Republic have in common? Nothing!

In a pre-Trump universe, chimpanzees would be typing thei…

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