Whether it’s Macklemore, Hasan Piker, or your neighborhood activist, this is a fight to make sure billionaires and politicians cannot stop free speech and will have to hear the calls to “Free Palestine” whether they like it or not.
Whether it’s Macklemore, Hasan Piker, or your neighborhood activist, this is a fight to make sure billionaires and politicians cannot stop free speech and will have to hear the calls to “Free Palestine” whether they like it or not.
Isn’t the issue with Hasan Piker really about his association with some political candidates rather than his right to say those things? It comes down to opponents tying candidates to his rhetoric in guilt-by-association campaign ads, which outside groups can flood the airwaves with thanks to the atrocious Supreme Court rulings that protects unlimited campaign spending as free speech.
The Macklemore issue is more in the traditional Free speech realm. The more interesting angle there is how many of those mega-venues were funded through public-private partnerships. If taxpayers foot the bill for the construction and infrastructure, it raises the question of whether private operators should still have unilateral power to shut out artists over political speech.