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I'm confused. You've tagged me, and then laid out a critique of a host of ideas I've never once advocated for in my life, nor do I believe in. Twitter (like any social media platform) has every right to turn away any commentator it likes. Nor have I ever demanded that every (or any) particular...

The examples you use are, to my mind, not purely freedom of speech related (although there is some overlap). Your bringing in other domains, such as abuse (cursing at children) and harassment (walking up to a woman you don't know and calling her disgusting names). I'm not that sort of free...

Sure. But there's a pretty clear liberal orthodox response to this event, isn't there? The teacher is attempting to use his position of power and authority to compel the student into speaking words against his will. That being the situation, I don't see how you could ever make the case for the...

Well... all of that would make sense if their entire argument (legal and political) for overturning RvW didn't hinge on the rights of individual states to pass their own laws and regulations surrounding abortion... and now they are turning around and presenting a diametrically opposed platform...

As I stated in the reply above, I have no idea how you come to that understanding of my position.

Clearly we're both responding to the wrong person, because I've never in my life said or thought that platforms or publishers should not have the freedom to choose what they host or publish, or that government has any place whatsoever in forcing anyone to host/publish anything. I'm extremely...

This is very well laid out, and there's nothing here I disagree with. I think the place where there's a disconnect between you and I is simply in what we think about society being a regulator of speech. I lean very hard in the direction that sees that as a bad thing that goes against liberal...

The right have never been freedom of speech defenders. They used to burn people for saying the wrong thing. Or drown them. Or stone them. Or have them drawn and quartered. And they absolutely still would if they thought they could get away with it. They still shut down any speech they disagree...

You and I have been through this before. There's a massive divide between what I value and what you value when it comes to free expression as a liberal principle. I never once claimed to be against fact checking or criticism. That may well apply to some people, but with me it's a strawman. I'm...

That's really not what I was getting at. I was getting at the idea that if you don't like that the new Little Mermaid is a person of colour, you have every right to skip it, and even to have your kids skip it. If that's the sort of asshole you want to be, fill your boots. But making a whole...

It is a good thing that you never claimed to be a freedom of speech champion. Not everyone is. But for those of us who are, freedom of speech does mean something, and have value, beyond the legal aspect. Otherwise, not only is it difficult to critique people who shut down speech as a social...

Your comic book analogy is actually very helpful. Three different scenarios: 1. If society doesn't like the comic book, and so society doesn't buy the comic book, and so the comic book goes out of print, then I agree with you. Tough cookies for John. Tough cookies for the comic book creator...

First of all, you are correct that funding is done on a per student basis. What you miss is that staffing is also done on a per student basis. As your student body shrinks, so do your costs. Which is why smaller schools aren't less successful academically. In fact, they're often more successful...

Exactly. But shitty law enforcement generally engages in a long list of pretty standard shitty procedures, which includes trumping up charges, suppressing evidence that hurts their case, manufacturing evidence that helps their case, exaggerating threats, entrapment, etc. Conservative or no...

Hey guys, remember how we were surging toward a huge red wave and then that pesky Supreme Court decisions came down and we revived Biden from the dead? How about we follow that up by poison pilling our own platform?

There is a good argument to be made that school choice is a path toward fixing existing schools. Most markets work better when people have choice not just by allowing new competitors in, but by forcing existing competitors to improve so that they can compete. The elimination of choice is...

I didn't say that you wanted to throw people in jail. I was simply pointing out that the "freedom of speech doesn't equal freedom from consequences" talking point isn't some sort of universal truth. It depends on the consequences. Also, yes freedom of speech is a legal issue. But it's not JUST...

Surely it equals freedom from SOME consequences, though, no? You can't call it free speech if you are throwing people in jail as a "consequence" for using their free speech, can you? (Using a threat on the life of a sitting president as an example really doesn't do it here. Beyond this, I do...

It's honestly something I'd never really even considered, either, but I've seen a number of articles and the analysis seems convincing to me. Posted these already, but here are a few: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...2c16bc-5948-11ec-a219-9b4ae96da3b7_story.html...

I'm not a rightie. We agree on a lot of things. I posted a few articles some pages back that provide the analysis that the pandemic backed up courts are a least partially to blame for the spike in crime, and I think that's a pretty convincing theory once you look at the evidence and analysis...