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This does not mean that the rest of us have to lend such people our ears.\u00a0 It does not mean that ABC owes Roseanne Barr a TV show. Rather, ABC had a perfect right to cancel her show when she finally got noticed for her vile racist tweets.\u00a0 Nor does anybody owe Samantha Bee a show and if her audience complains loudly enough or her sponsors bail or her network ditches her, that too is not censorship.\u00a0 That\u2019s the Market.<\/p>\n

But, because Trump is an instinctive authoritarian despot with no grasp of the first amendment and a deep hostility to free speech, he does not get this and so, the White House has demanded that Bee\u2019s show be cancelled<\/a>.\u00a0 And that, my friends, is<\/em> censorship and is precisely what the first amendment exists to prevent.<\/p>\n

The state has absolutely no business telling us what we can and cannot say.<\/p>\n

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