{"id":4756,"date":"2015-01-21T20:56:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T01:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4756"},"modified":"2015-01-21T20:56:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T01:56:55","slug":"freedom-of-speech-boston-mayor-bans-bad-mouthing-of-olympics-as-facebook-will-filter-out-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4756","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Speech? Boston Mayor Bans Bad Mouthing of Olympics, as Facebook Will Filter Out \u201cFake News\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/01\/21\/freedom-of-speech-boston-mayor-bans-bad-mouthing-of-olympics-as-facebook-will-filter-out-fake-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom of Speech? Boston Mayor Bans Bad Mouthing of Olympics, as Facebook Will Filter Out \u201cFake News\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In case you need a refresher, here\u2019s the text of\u00a0the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, this doesn\u2019t apply to the Mayor of Boston when it comes to silencing the speech of public employees who may not like that the Olympics may be coming to town.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2015\/01\/21\/boston-city-employees-told-not-badmouth-olympics\/J7JFBrq2YGkWGzqP42PQZO\/story.html?hootPostID=39a6b75d947ce536bdcd82eff47fb7cd\"><em>\u00a0Boston Globe<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If you\u2019re a Boston city employee, there\u2019s now an official decree: don\u2019t badmouth the Olympics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Documents obtained by the Globe through a public records request to City Hall show\u00a0<strong>Mayor Martin J. Walsh has signed a formal agreement with the United States Olympic Committee that bans city employees from criticizing Boston\u2019s bid for the 2024 Summer Games.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The \u201cjoinder agreement\u201d forbids the city of Boston and its employees from making any written or oral statements that \u201creflect unfavorably upon, denigrate or disparage, or are detrimental to the reputation\u201d of the International Olympic Committee, the USOC, or the Olympic Games.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So supporting the\u00a0Olympics is now a matter of national security. How cute.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom of Speech? Boston Mayor Bans Bad Mouthing of Olympics, as Facebook Will Filter Out \u201cFake News\u201d In case you need a refresher, here\u2019s the text of\u00a0the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2828,2831,2829,2542,2834,2832,2830,2833],"class_list":["post-4756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-boston","tag-boston-city-employees","tag-boston-mayor","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-ioc","tag-martin-walsh","tag-olympics","tag-usoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}