Roasting the Press Episode 39 for Sunday, September 8th, 2024
Free Speech in the Cross Hairs, Music, Emotional Resonance and Propaganda plus "Are Sunglasses Causing Cancer?"
Tonight’s new media personalities include Freedom Forum editor Chuck Black, independent media commentator Marie Anne and Mongo Minds Productions owner Richard Gagnon.
Free Speech in the Cross Hairs
Our first story tonight is focused around the September 1st, 2024 Popular Rationalism on Substack post, “Free Speech in the Cross Hairs” which notes a “Global Surge in Government Censorship and Digital Control.”
According to the post “Individuals - all individuals - must stand up and continue to use their rights to free speech and disempower those who would enslave all of our minds” and provides a list of some new government censorship initiatives over the last few weeks.
The list includes:
Brazil’s crack down on VPN usage and it’s ongoing attempts to censor Elon Musk’s “X“ social media platform (The August 31st, 2024 Telsarati post, “Brazil crackdown on X continues with up to $8.9k daily fine for VPN users”).
Germany’s ongoing enforcement…
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