How We Can, Or Rather Could, Save Free Speech From ‘Free Speech’ Trolls

This certain-type-of-person freakout is costing anyone who’s not an aggrieved white man quite a lot. “Casting the dissent of marginalized groups as a First Amendment violation is the kind of pseudo-intellectual argument that seems reasonable to people who don’t have enough skin in the game to bother paying attention. ‘Discourse’ is good! Sunlight is the best disinfectant! The more airtime we give to irrational bigots on high-profile platforms — the more assiduously we hear both sides, stay ‘fair and balanced’ — the sooner they’ll be rejected by the public at large!”