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We must be the protectors of our own free speech, and habitually speak out not just against the tech giants, but also against populist gurus.
This was a room full of people passionately engaged in the world of ideas. Yet in their panelist remarks and Q&A comments, few of the speakers and audience members invoked the name of any actual party, politician or even broad political movement.
In the prevailing academic climate, those who offer dissenting analyses of the problems afflicting black communities, or who support unpopular social policies designed to alleviate those problems, risk censorship, ostracization, and even the loss of employment.
The very writers, publishers, poets, musicians, comedians, media producers and artists who once worried about being muzzled by the government are now self-organizing on social media (Twitter, especially) to censor each other.
Yale cannot help but indulge the claims—no matter how overblown—levelled against it by activists.
Bannon’s deplatforming has reignited the debate about the responsibilities that mainstream event organisers and media broadcasters have when giving a platform to far-right views, and what limits we should place on public discourse.
So far, Amerige has not been fired from Facebook as James Damore was fired from Google a year ago.
Bitcoin’s decentralized network means that regardless of how much corporate America hates some commentator, it can’t stop you from sending her cryptocurrency.
Vox characterized the practice of dredging up tweets and trying to get people fired over them an “alt right” tactic.
But should all political comment on religion have to pass an offense test to be allowed?
The Nation’s editors are now taking aim at language itself, reducing the complexity of human communication to a primitive understanding of words.
Free speech advocates don’t defend the speech rights of Nazis because they believe that Nazis have anything valuable to contribute to a marketplace of ideas.
The most influential newspaper in the world, the standard bearer of the Establishment, is announcing that free speech is, or should be, over.