{"id":310,"date":"2018-08-08T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2018\/08\/08\/maybe-i-missed-something-aren\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:29:17","slug":"maybe-i-missed-something-aren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Maybe I Missed Something &#8211; Aren&#8217;t Newspapers Supposed To Support The First Amendment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6991,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/scholarship.law.unc.edu\\\/cgi\\\/viewcontent.cgi?article=3952&amp;context=nclr&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/scholarship.law.unc.edu\\\/cgi\\\/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&amp;httpsredir=1&amp;article=3952&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6992,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Jonathan_Yardley&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260328023501\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Jonathan_Yardley&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 18:55:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 00:01:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-04 16:55:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-04 16:55:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6993,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Edwin_Yoder&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6994,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.greensboro.com\\\/news\\\/former-editor-was-one-of-greats\\\/article_dc38c55a-5918-5334-8210-fea493c9d751.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/greensboro.com\\\/news\\\/former-editor-was-one-of-greats\\\/article_dc38c55a-5918-5334-8210-fea493c9d751.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6995,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.greensboro.com\\\/opinion\\\/n_and_r_editorials\\\/our-opinion-north-carolina-is-right-to-join-a-suit\\\/article_26884551-c03a-57f2-884a-193dde0e903d.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/greensboro.com\\\/opinion\\\/n_and_r_editorials\\\/our-opinion-north-carolina-is-right-to-join-a-suit\\\/article_26884551-c03a-57f2-884a-193dde0e903d.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nWhen I grew up in the 60s and 70s in Greensboro, North Carolina, our local newspaper, the Greensboro Daily News, supported free speech. It had <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.law.unc.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=3952&amp;context=nclr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editorialized <\/a>against the Speaker Ban Law which banned anyone with Communist Party connections from speaking on a state university campus. It featured great editorial writers like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonathan_Yardley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan Yardley<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edwin_Yoder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edwin Yoder<\/a> who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize later in their careers. The editor was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greensboro.com\/news\/former-editor-was-one-of-greats\/article_dc38c55a-5918-5334-8210-fea493c9d751.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Bill Snider<\/a> who would get crosses burned in his yard for his support of civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>So you can imagine my feeling when I read one of their most recent editorials arguing <b>against <\/b>free speech in the name of safety. It began:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Imagine a gun you could build in the privacy of your home in much the same way that you assembled model cars and planes as a youth.<\/p>\n<p>A few clicks of a mouse and \u2014 voila! \u2014 you\u2019re in business.<\/p>\n<p>We have the know-how. We have the technology. And we should have the common sense not to use it.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know where this is going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greensboro.com\/opinion\/n_and_r_editorials\/our-opinion-north-carolina-is-right-to-join-a-suit\/article_26884551-c03a-57f2-884a-193dde0e903d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The unsigned editorial in the News &amp; Record (combination of the old Daily News and Greesboro Record)<\/a> was applauding the move by Attorney General Josh Stein (D-NC) to join the lawsuit in Washington State seeking to prevent Defense Distributed from publishing its files of code for 3-D printing and CNC machining.<\/p>\n<p>No matter that these have been on the Internet since at least 2013 and thousands of us have copies of those files on our computers. No matter that it is 100% legal to make your own firearm so long as you are not a prohibited person and it is not a fully automatic firearm. Of course, they didn&#8217;t tell you that part in the editorial. Nor did they say that it would cheaper and easier to go to Lowe&#8217;s for parts and Harbor Freight for tools to make your own more substantial firearm.<\/p>\n<p>As I commented on the story on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greensboro.com\/opinion\/n_and_r_editorials\/our-opinion-north-carolina-is-right-to-join-a-suit\/article_26884551-c03a-57f2-884a-193dde0e903d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>When a news organization ostensibly dedicated to a free press AND to free speech editorializes against speech it doesn&#8217;t like &#8211; and make no mistake computer code is speech &#8211; it sets a horrendous precendent. What speech will you next want to subject to prior restraint? Will it be conservative speech by an African-American like Mark Robinson? Or will it be something said by a pro-life teen?<\/p>\n<p>Where does it stop? You don&#8217;t have to like what is said and you can argue against the ideas contained in that speech. However, in our somewhat free society it should and must be allowed.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is a bad precedent for any news organization to argue for censorship of free speech. The Greensboro Daily News and Record editorial staff ought rightly to be ashamed of themselves.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I grew up in the 60s and 70s in Greensboro, North Carolina, our local newspaper, the Greensboro Daily&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[350,436,808,809,810,437],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-censorship","tag-free-speech","tag-greensboro","tag-greensboro-daily-news-and-record","tag-nc-ag-josh-stein","tag-washington-state-et-al-v-pompeo-et-al"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11538,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/11538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}