The Free Speech Argument Against Free Speech
Vox Day recently took a bit of a victory lap over the redesign of Gab, which introduced a "remove reply and block" feature. It seems that anyone who reaches even…
The Big Tech Challenge to Free Speech
I think it's beyond question now that our tech giants had a significant effect on the 2020 election. Their throttling, shadow-banning, and outright censorship of selective stories and outlets is…
Amazon Book-Banning
I once got into an argument with another student at college about the effect of free speech on minorities. Her position was that without some sort of protection, a majority…
Free Speech Needs Nationalism
I was reading a book written by my great-great grandfather a few days ago. It described (among other things) the account of his journey from Scotland to India in the…
The Benevolence of the Censor
I think Tim Pool is beginning to get past the initial "hate speech is nonsense" reaction, and discovering the moral virtue of hatred. He is not the only one on the…
Defeating the Censors
Millennial Woes and Sargon of Akkad chat in their annual "Milleniyule" video. In my opinion, the most important part of the conversation happens at the very beginning: MW: Before we…
The Answer to Censorship of Hate-Speech (Regarding Sargon’s Departure from Patreon)
Sargon has now been banned from Patreon, for -- imagine my shock -- hate speech. What is curious is the precise sentence that the political activists at Patreon chose as…
Dankula’s Downfall
Markus "Count Dankula" Meechan has just been convicted of "grossly offensive" hate speech, for the crime of teaching his girlfriend's dog to respond excitedly to "gas the jews," and to…
The Strong Case for Censorship
Here's a puzzle: what's wrong with Slavoj Zizek's argument for censorship? I like censorship, but what kind of censorship? Not ‘the office, you get imprisoned,’ but censorship which is a…