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Kennedy explained that in crafting the Bill of Rights, America’s Founders “put the right to free expression in the First Amendment because all the other rights depended on it—because the government that has the power to silence its critics has license for any kind of atrocity.”

“They also understood just theoretically that the whole basis for democracy was the free flow of information,” he said, adding that democracy’s advantage over “tyrannical and monarchical” systems of government is that “through the free flow of information, the best policies can triumph in the marketplace of ideas.”

[Source.](https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/24/exclusive-robert-f-kennedy-jr-there-is-no-time-in-history-where-the-people-who-were-censoring-speech-were-the-good-guys/) > Kennedy explained that in crafting the Bill of Rights, America’s Founders “put the right to free expression in the First Amendment because all the other rights depended on it—because the government that has the power to silence its critics has license for any kind of atrocity.” > “They also understood just theoretically that the whole basis for democracy was the free flow of information,” he said, adding that democracy’s advantage over “tyrannical and monarchical” systems of government is that “through the free flow of information, the best policies can triumph in the marketplace of ideas.”

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That quote sounds like a jew defending widespread corporate deplatforming.

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Well, he did kiss the wall. But I've never seen evidence he was part of the tribe.

And his quote long predates the internet and all of the current woke bullshit. In context, it was more along the line of - Go ahead and talk but you can't force anyone to listen ... or care.