That "freedom of speech" means "I get to be nasty about you. You don't even get to be critical about me." He and Republicans have been playing this tune for quite a while now.
Besides, Freedom of speech is the right to express opinions, ideas, and beliefs without censorship, retaliation, or legal punishment from the government, protecting speech, writing, art, and symbolic acts (protests, etc).
Forcing "equal time" is definitely not freedom of speech, since it means anything a person wants to say has to be balanced with something someone else wants you to say.
(I'd also like to point out Steven Colbert made fun of Biden all the time. Often for things Trump made fun of, too. And sometimes he still does make fun of Biden. Does that mean he's already complying to this unethical rule?)
Let me guess - they don’t want to enforce equal time rule on Fox News or Twitter/X or Truth Social? So much for the right valuing free speech or private parties having the freedom to do what they want. To be clear, I don’t dispute the bias alleged in many of these shows. But I find this one sided enforcement to just be a shameless abuse of power.
Agreed. Trump has made the phrase "freedom of speech" into a marker. Someone who uses it is marked as a liar and a bully.
Just like the word "woke." Given what it really means, the anti- are trying very hard to be as stupid and gullible as possible.
Don't shoot the messenger. Think about what Woke means outside of propaganda, and the opposite is plain old idiocy without critical thinking. "Vote for the party name, knowing full well they won't give you anything you unwokefully thought you'd get out of that vote."