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My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Up

Ken White · 20 Nov 2023 · popehat.substack.com ↗

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  1. Our reading

    Refusing to advertise on a platform is protected expression, not an attack on the platform owner's free speech.

    Their wordsElon Musk’s sullen yawp amounts to a claim that he has a right for companies to sponsor his speech, no matter what he says. That’s nonsense, both legally and philosophically.
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    Treating criticism as censorship is a widespread confusion, and it is wrong: the critic has speech rights of their own.

    Their words“Your criticism violates my right to free speech” is a fatuous but common American sentiment.
    Interesting

  3. Our reading

    The cancel-culture argument now mostly shields the powerful from criticism rather than protecting the powerless from being silenced.

    Their wordsIn my view, too many critics of “cancel culture” are recklessly promoting not the speech of the powerless, but the censorious resentment of the powerful.
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