On Free Speech, Part 2: privatizing the public square.
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Has anyone else noticed that since 2016, a significant number of liberals and leftists have become Reason magazine reading, free market worshiping, Ayn Rand-loving libertarians? This holds particularly true with the number of people who cheer when some social media corporation censors (the powers that be are pushing the neologism ‘deplatform’ as a euphemism) someone spouting a conservative point of view. When challenged on free speech concerns, these newly libertarian-minded individuals almost to the person will reply that private companies have the right to “control the content” (another
On Free Speech, Part 2: privatizing the public square.
On Free Speech, Part 2: privatizing the…
On Free Speech, Part 2: privatizing the public square.
Has anyone else noticed that since 2016, a significant number of liberals and leftists have become Reason magazine reading, free market worshiping, Ayn Rand-loving libertarians? This holds particularly true with the number of people who cheer when some social media corporation censors (the powers that be are pushing the neologism ‘deplatform’ as a euphemism) someone spouting a conservative point of view. When challenged on free speech concerns, these newly libertarian-minded individuals almost to the person will reply that private companies have the right to “control the content” (another