{"id":374406,"date":"2018-08-22T12:33:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T11:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/americans-deserve-same-free-speech-rights-as-the-media\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T12:33:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T11:33:12","slug":"americans-deserve-same-free-speech-rights-as-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/americans-deserve-same-free-speech-rights-as-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Deserve Same Free Speech Rights As The Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Menahan<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=58922\">Information Liberation<\/a><br \/>August 22, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Trump spoke out against Big Tech censorship at his rally Tuesday in West Virginia and suggested Americans deserve the same First Amendment rights as the media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also standing up to social media censorship, that\u2019s the new thing, that\u2019s the new thing,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou know, I\u2019d rather have fake news like CNN, I\u2019d rather have fake news, it\u2019s true, than have anybody including liberals, socialists, anything, than have anybody stopped and censored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got to live with it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cYou can\u2019t have censorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pres. Trump at West Virginia rally: &#8220;I would rather have fake news than have anybody \u2013 including liberals, socialists, anything \u2013 than have anybody stopped or censored.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/toeBQCE1Zg\">https:\/\/t.co\/toeBQCE1Zg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aMKCfTFRtW\">pic.twitter.com\/aMKCfTFRtW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1032060952584179712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEveryone of us is sort of like a newspaper,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou have Twitter\u2026 you have Facebook\u2026 You can\u2019t have censorship, you can\u2019t pick one person and say, we don\u2019t like what he\u2019s been saying, he\u2019s out. So we will live with fake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate to say it but we have no choice because that\u2019s by far the better alternative. You can\u2019t have people saying censorship. It can turn around, it could be them next. We believe in the right of Americans to speak their minds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aVIrt2fLNMw\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a good angle as there\u2019s really no difference these days between random individuals on social media and media outlets, especially considering most fake news outlets like CNN have zero standards anyways \u2014 not to mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=58876\">they outright lie to get our nation into wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Fake News hates me saying that they are the Enemy of the People only because they know it\u2019s TRUE. I am providing a great service by explaining this to the American People. They purposely cause great division &amp; distrust. They can also cause War! They&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/trump-slams-big-tech-censorship-americans-deserve-same-free-speech-rights-as-the-media.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris MenahanInformation LiberationAugust 22, 2018 President Trump spoke out against Big Tech censorship at his rally Tuesday in West Virginia and suggested Americans deserve the same First Amendment rights as the media. \u201cWe are also standing up to social media censorship, that\u2019s the new thing, that\u2019s the new thing,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou know, I\u2019d rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}