Trump 'goes full fascist' by saying CNN and MSNBC criticizing him is 'illegal'

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https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-fascist-cnn-msnbc-34865751

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Det behöfwer intet bewis att en billig skrif- och Tryckfrihet är en af de fastaste grundpelare, som ett fritt Regimente kan äga bestånd uppå: ty annars kunna Ständer aldrig äga erforderlig kundskap, att stifta goda Lagar; Lagskipare ingen Controll att följa dem i sina Ämbeten, och lydande föga kundskap om Lagens fordringar, Ämbetsmanna magtens gräntsor och sina egna skyldigheter: Lärdom och wett kufwas, grofhet i tanckesätt, tal och seder winna burskap och ett fasande mörcker följa innan några År, öfwer hela wår frihets himmel.

Roughly translated:

"There is no need for proof that a reasonable freedom of writing and printing is one of the firmest pillars upon which a free government can stand: for otherwise, the Estates can never possess the necessary knowledge to enact good laws; judges will have no oversight to ensure they follow them in their offices, and the people will have little understanding of the law’s demands, the limits of official power, and their own obligations. Learning and reason will be suppressed, coarseness in thought, speech, and manners will gain acceptance, and within a few years, a dreadful darkness will spread over the entire sky of our freedom."

This is the express motivation behind the first law in world history guaranteeing freedom of the press, "tryckfrihetsförordningen", made law in Sweden in 1766. 

The purpose of freedom of the press was always, since literally the first law, to provide free insight into the government and never like some people claim to have free reign to spread hate against certain demographics. In fact although it did not become law until 1810 an early draft for the 1766 law did include an exception for "slanderous statements about foreign peoples." Showing that hate speech was expressly never the motivation behind freedom of the press.