Mr. Bean stands up for Free Speech

[ClaytonB]

I think this is from 2014:



Where are all the Hollywood leftists in the wake of rampant COVID censorship? Aren't they supposed to be big defenders of the libertine right to show any kind of depravity on-screen? And are they so incredibly dense that they cannot see that when the State can gag anything it pleases under the label "misinformation", it's going to gag their oh-so-precious staged perversity whenever it is convenient to do so? Atkinson is a Brit and they don't even have legal protection for the right of free-speech there. He was standing up for the right to speak your mind even if someone else considers it "insulting" which is relatively minor compared to the COVID "misinformation" assault where even MDs were being shut-down and canceled merely for raising the question of whether the vaccines were as safe as advertised. The American Left should be outraged over this. Instead, nothing but crickets.

We are living under near-Chinese levels of censorship, and all the big names who, 10 years ago, would have vociferously protested against these outrages are strangely silent. Something has changed behind the scenes while we were all distracted with other things like mask mandates and election heists. Elon Musk, Twitter, Babylon Bee, etc. these are all just stop-gap measures, they really fail to get to the root of the issue. The root of the issue is that our real influencers -- the pop-stars, media personalities, academics, religious teachers, and so on -- have all suddenly, simultaneously and mysteriously fallen as silent as stone on all of the most basic issues of modern governance, starting with the unprecedented assault on free-speech under COVID!

Wake up, people!

[CaptUSA]

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