A collection of 236 posts
An even more fundamental reason why social media companies shouldn’t try to suppress controversial ideas is that they are very bad at determining who and what is wrong or dangerous.
But that’s the thing about freedom of speech: you tend not to notice it being curtailed until it’s your speech that’s being restricted.
Corporations are increasingly prone to formulating explicit moral positions on issues of social importance and punishing those who fail to condone such positions to the extent that they are able to do so.
Antifa movements have sprung up in a variety of countries, often opposing Nazis and Nazi sympathizers while also promoting general far-left politics of the Marxist and communist variety.
The silencing of a voice does not lead to discourse, in art or in politics.
The motif of the marketplace of ideas, Stanley argues, only works with descriptive speech.
Political speech is the most important category of speech and it is the first category of speech authoritarians will seek to constrain as they consolidate power.
The recently concluded libel trial involving Oberlin College offered a demonstration of this phenomenon on the part of both the defendants and much of the media covering the case.
Essays attacking the left- or right-wing bias of this or that media outlet are, of course, old hat in my business.
Many liberals—including feminists and lesbians—have been cowardly in calling out this noxious phenomenon, for fear of being called transphobes.
The behavior on display in that video didn’t originate in a place of reason, but rather the realm of spiritual passions.
The intellectual dishonesty and disreputable methods used by these journalists are as bad as the behavior they aim to cure.
Reading this collection is recommended—because, while feminists still generally keep Dworkin at arm’s length, the modern movement contains far more of her than they care to admit.
If we are to realize Zuckerberg´s idea of an internet that is “safe” from “harmful” content, we will have to choose which groups get to enjoy a digital safe space.
If sensitivity readers become a publishing institution, they will only incentivize more cautious, conservative, and ideologically homogenous books.