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Yes, all censorship is unwarranted in my view. It is for this reason that I refuse to deny or punish someone’s choice to publish what they wish, and c...

That’s a silly analogy and conclusion. Your claim to understand what I know and want is fabricated from thin air, projected, just like the power you a...

I never said censorship was warranted. I said that they can censor if they wanted to. This is because it is their property. To deny or punish them for...

I seek expression for its own sake. I also find it healthy and beneficial to hold my ideas to the grindstone of criticism and disputation. It get’s me...

I do. When I think about the sum total of linguistic expression, it pains me to think of all the history, knowledge, and art that has been stolen, sup...

Your sense is way off in my own case. Throughout history censorship has been used against minorities of all types: religious, racial, political, the i...

Most likely because we are interacting with screens instead of human beings. So much of human interaction is missing from the equation to begin with.

It’s a sort of cultural imperialism, spreading through various Internet echo-chambers as quickly as the Washington press will allow it. I also don’t l...

I suppose flour is the necessary cause of bread, and hops the necessary cause of beer. I’m not going to use such language. No matter what word you use...

I appreciate the analogy. But who or what is making the tea? The milk? The tea-leaves? The kettle? Not a single one of these, or any combination of th...

No, I could care less about jargon. The only thing you or your words have caused is the movement of some air and some sound waves.

Your just skip a variety of preceding causes to the event you described—hearing, understanding, trusting etc. Appealing to ridicule to disguise a shit...

No. The fears that “any candidates other than white men for jobs mostly held by white men might run into turmoil once their nominations got to the Whi...

Great point. As their sanctions suggest, I think we can trust that their version of free speech extends only to views they agree with.

I don’t know much about the UK education system, so I’m not quite sure what their measures would exactly entail, or how much the government gets to de...

I personally view liberty as of the highest importance and believe society should maximize it. Liberty isn’t so redundant when you realize there is st...

Then what events are words the cause of exactly? I know when you’re struggling when you begin to pad your arguments with ridicule.

You’re right. Cancel culture is a huge problem, and it is forging a generation who fear ideas. I just think there are better ways to defend free speec...

Personally I think the government, especially one as censorial as the UK, should not compel universities to promote free speech with the threat of san...

There are plenty examples there, spanning decades. The point, though, is that I am unable to find many fools among them. And it’s not a question about...

In the US the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has a database of “disinvitations”. I’m not aware of any such database in the UK, but I’m ...

You’re right: it is stupid. One would be hard-pressed to find flat-earthers and fools among the growing list of disinvited speakers.

One can listen to a speech and fear what he comes to understand are the intentions of the speaker. This is a rational deliberation, not something forc...

I don’t trust that a “free speech champion” should compel people to advocate for free speech under fear of fine and sanction. That seems to me the opp...

Unfortunately your capabilities only allow you to make the accusation, but you can never back them up. I can refer to Supreme Court precedent to show ...

It would make my life easier if you put a question mark after each of your sentences. Like this?

It also contradicts American law and 1st amendment jurisprudence. But people such as yourself are not concerned with actual law, just political show-t...

Since you cry at the mere sight of truth, believe things uncritically, and use "like" in the worst fashion, I'm forced to imagine your voice with a hi...

The House managers used the lie in the memo, and the New York Times spread the misinformation to their readers, but I’m the liar? You’re a useful idio...

He wasn’t murdered. “He texted me last night and said, ‘I got pepper-sprayed twice,’ and he was in good shape,” said Ken Sicknick, his brother, as the...

That he was murdered by someone wielding a fire-extinguisher.

It looks like the lie about Officer Brian Sicknick’s murder is quietly being updated, long after credulous dupes used it as a political football. http...

Shoan’s evisceration of the House manager’s lies was amazing to watch, but it’s also useful because this is the sort of manipulation the American medi...

Well, I never said that. Trump’s speech, however, is protected.

No, I was speaking of criminally charging someone for incitement to insurrection when his speech is fully protected by the 1st.

They made a deal to move to closing arguments without calling witnesses. Trump’s team threatened to call Pelosi, Harris, and more.

Given their propensity for witch-hunts, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. But it would be unconstitutional and unjust and would set a dangerous pre...

That’s not true. At no point did Trump advocate violence, which is a necessary test under the first amendment.

It was never about seeking justice.

Sorry but Trump’s words are protected by the constitution and do not rise to the level of incitement, let alone incitement to insurrection. This is pr...

It was a show trial by definition.

The senate acquitted Trump in the Dem’s impeachment show-trial. https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1360693147676930048?s=21

Biden aide threatens reporter True to form. The Obama administration was the most censorial administration in recent memory, so it’s no wonder the Bid...

Probably true, but I live below the 49th parallel.

I think we have plenty compassion going around. There is no shortage of people publicly signalling their compassion about this or that group. But comp...

Sorry, I disagree. It makes you wonder why he didn’t us the USS Comfort and Javits center field hospital to house those patients. I am almost certain ...

New York Governor Cuomo hid coronavirus deaths from Trump. They undercounted nursing homes deaths by as much as 50%. This after his murderous nursing ...

Swallwell, who has been compromised by Chinese spies, read her tweet as cavalry, not Calvary. They photoshopped her tweet. But no, let’s not get hung ...

Do you believe it is possible that when a man says “We’re going walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congress...

But can you incite someone to commit a crime while explicitly telling them to do the opposite? That’s the magical power Trump has. But yes you are les...