Curtis Houck

But when you've reached a point like in the UK where people are going to jail or posts electronic messages that are being sent,

And you think of the UK and the US kind of as the 1A, 1B of Western civilization.

I kind of feel like it does become a problem at a certain point.

My colleagues at the Free Speech America division here at the MRC have been all over this kind of thing, talking about the E's, doing as much as we may want to put it, keep it at arm's length.

We have to at least know what's going on.

Because, you know, as far left as they are, it's kind of a preview of coming attractions to the United States and the way that, you know, our government institutions are going to be thinking about the news.

So we have to kind of anticipate what's coming down the pike, you know, with future FCCs.

We know what's good for you.

Yeah, we know what's good for you.

And it's the Tom Nichols rule of experts lifestyle that we've been dealing with for the longest time.

Really anything that comes out of the Atlantic is of that mode frame of mind.

So, you know, I think that kind of free speech in particular frames the stakes of upcoming elections and the importance of rescuing and saving and preserving these institutions that we have both here in the United States and in the Western civilization because our way of life

and what they're pushing and what Communist China is pushing.

Even in Hong Kong, when they had the building fire, they've been engaging in rampant censorship and grounding up people who are just saying that we're not getting the information that we need from government officials because they're saying, well, we can't let this get out of hand instead of trying to actually figure out what happened in the first place.

That's an example about how we cannot allow that to come to the United States.

We're having our quotes of the year coming up in a few weeks.

So stay tuned for that.

It'll be at newsbusters.org.

Last few years, we've named it the Don Lemon Memorial Quote of the Year.

So stay tuned for that coming up.