Re:USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc ...
by DanBC on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @01:43PM
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I'd have a bit more sympathy if he hadn't previously done exactly the same thing, and been given a suspended sentence and a clear unambiguous warning from a judge not to do it again.
He's not being silenced because he's right wing. He's being silenced because he's jeopardising trials and threatening witnesses.
You’re right that Robinson was in the wrong on this one and that he did commit a crime; I wouldn’t have used him as an example had he not been brought up specifically.
Even in the U.S., there are people actively lobbying to use the government, usually state governments, to restrict the BDS movement. In my opinion there’s been a lot of media attention around silencing right wing speech in order to get the left to comply in undermining the underlying legal principles. But at the same time, quieter work is being done to restrict left wing speech as well. This has already been put in place in Europe and there seems to be bipartisan support for it in the U.S.