Isn’t it great how, in a nation that bills itself as the “freest country in the world,” people can be silenced when the free speech they exercise in unsavory?<\/p>\n
A college radio station DJ in Alaska was suspended for doing just that<\/a>:<\/p>\n Scott Hornyak, a 28-year-old undergraduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks<\/a>, had been suspended indefinitely from his disc jockey job at KSUA-FM<\/a> after the Sunday show.<\/p>\n “They’re firing me because of what I said, and the public’s reaction to what I said,” said Hornyak, who goes by the call name “Spider Bui.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n This same bull happened during 9\/11, and during every other major event where we’re supposed to come together in one big patriotic pow-wow. Always nice to know that, much like in places like China and Vietnam<\/a>, “free speech” only applies when the speech is politically favorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A college radio station DJ is fired for being critical of former president Reagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}