This and other recent articles condemning the Trump administration are disappointing in that they omit any mention of the egregious censorship (jawboning) carried out under the Biden administration and the censorship by You Tube, Twitter, et al carried out from the beginnings of social media through their algorithms. That censorship by private companies is certainly free speech and protected under 230. I expect better from Lukianoff and FIRE, but I’m also reminded that one of the reasons FREE SPEECH is essential to our republic is that it reveals the bias that a speaker cannot recognize in his own speech.
This and other recent articles condemning the Trump administration are disappointing in that they omit any mention of the egregious censorship (jawboning) carried out under the Biden administration and the censorship by You Tube, Twitter, et al carried out from the beginnings of social media through their algorithms. That censorship by private companies is certainly free speech and protected under 230. I expect better from Lukianoff and FIRE, but I’m also reminded that one of the reasons FREE SPEECH is essential to our republic is that it reveals the bias that a speaker cannot recognize in his own speech.