The Left Is Wielding a Devastating Weapon Against Free Speech. These Stories Show Dangerous Trend

The Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg fired Williamson after left-wing group Media Matters dug up a September 2014 podcast where Williamson reiterated his belief, first articulated in a single tweet, that women who obtain abortions should be prosecuted for murder. Hanging was the conservative writer’s preferred form of capital punishment because “if the state is going to do violence, let’s make it violence,” Williamson said . . .

Media Matters has been waging censorship campaigns against right-of-center voices for years. The group’s left-wing donors, including billionaire George Soros, have allowed it to wage all-out war against conservatives for the better part of a decade.

Fox News fired former hosts Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly after advertisers fled their shows under pressure from Media Matters. Sean Hannity has faced ongoing boycotts since May 2017, as part of a coordinated campaign meant to take down the pro-Trump Fox News host . . .

Two left-wing gun control groups, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense and Everytown for Gun Safety, tried to pressure Amazon, Apple and Google into banning NRA media-arm NRATV from their streaming platforms. So far, those efforts have been unsuccessful.

Another activist group, Sleeping Giants, targeted Breitbart News’ advertisers with overwhelming success: 90 percent of advertisers fled Breitbart in just two months, and the website has continued bleeding advertisers since then. (Read more from “The Left Is Wielding a Devastating Weapon Against Free Speech. These Stories Show Dangerous Trend” HERE)

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