@UnderpantsWeevil "claimed" or "stated" commitment...
He was, in fact, wholly against all free speech.
All he championed and was wholly committed to was hate speech.
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You're not for free speech if you don't fight to protect your opponent's ability to speak.
Unless of course your opponent is a fascist spreading disinformation and strangling the very possibility of speech being free.
There are two parts to that. The second is the real problem. Hate speech and disinformation don't do well in a truly open forum. So the danger isn't freedom of speech for everyone, it's the appearance of it while suppressing certain viewpoints or creating echo chambers. It took a number of years to get to this point...
If theres anything the last 15 years of politics around the world should show us, its that hate speech and disinformation do very well in an open forum
Interesting to hear talk about an open forum in the past decade or so on a discussion infrastructure that grew in size over the past few years due to oppression from dominant forums of the past. The debate over if censoring the "bad" speech stifles it or lets it fester hidden is an ongoing one that's been around a long time.
Where did we land on antisemitism on campus? Didn't people get fired for saying it was free speech as long as it didn't become harassment or violent? Why was Kirk allowed on campuses with impunity?
Or was that only disallowed when they wanted to crush pro-palestine protests?
Why was Kirk allowed on campuses with impunity?
Because he was an employee of an organization aligned with the state governments that admitted him.
Free for me, fuck you
Only right-speach is free.
The only free speech they support is freedom for fascists to spout the party line.