Another day, another scorching hot take in the New York Times op-ed section:
Move over, Climate Change. pic.twitter.com/eJvhzoAhfK
— trick-or-treater (@neontaster) October 4, 2019
Amazing, but not unexpected:
.@nytopinion has an article today called “Free Speech is Killing Us.”https://t.co/ExfdEU8af7
Why do many of their editorial writers support collectivist ideas? pic.twitter.com/PwIvTbnAfq
— Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) October 4, 2019
The solution to deadly feee speech? The government should create state run news and state run social media platforms. pic.twitter.com/fqc3XXg7eu
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) October 4, 2019
Memes should be in the same classification as guns now pic.twitter.com/3eNh9B6edH
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) October 4, 2019
The Times knew that take was so hot that they even supplied some fire in their tweet:
"Noxious speech is causing tangible harm. Yet this fact implies a question so uncomfortable that many of us go to great lengths to avoid asking it. Namely, what should we — the government, private companies or individual citizens — be doing about it?" https://t.co/tJQTFnBcOy
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) October 4, 2019
Well, there it is.
Smells like China in here https://t.co/yVH6OEq9Wk
— HalloWyatt? (@RealWynotm3) October 4, 2019
Really, @nytimes? "Free Speech Is Killing Us"? https://t.co/ZU5NjSL8pL
I'll see your anecdotes and self-interested fear-mongering about free speech online, and I'll raise you…actual data showing a precipitous decline in violent crimes.
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— Tom Struble (@tstruble) October 4, 2019
It never ceases to amaze me how a seemingly intelligent person can talk about the dangers of an authoritarian administration in one breath and advocate for expanded powers in the next, without a thought of how it could backfire. https://t.co/IDWw17EzBR
— Zack Kanter (@zackkanter) October 4, 2019
And isn’t it ironic…
“Free speech is killing us”, he said in the opinion section.
— Dallas Hoelscher (@DJHoelscher) October 4, 2019
NY Times publishing the case against free speech is quite something https://t.co/6crIQ5cMMm
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) October 4, 2019
As much as I love the second amendment, I still think the first amendment is the more powerful.
Also pretty fresh that they use an opinion section of a newspaper to rail against free speech. Also hate speech is different for each person…https://t.co/ndaeztQEVW pic.twitter.com/jFiMvdbvgx— Travis Mersiovsky (@TMersiovsky) October 4, 2019
That article being published in the same paper that found the diversity of opinion on Fox News newsworthy if not mockworthy is hardly surprising.
