Marc Randazza is fighting to keep Nazis and trolls on Twitter. Here's why.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/meet-the-free-speech-lawyer-fighting-to-keep-nazis-and?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
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For a long time, Randazza represented some of the biggest names in porn: http://Kink.com , Bang Bros, Corbin Fisher. But he’s become better known as a free speech advocate for internet-famous right-wingers, people who run the gamut from trollish to hateful to worse.
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In so doing, he’s become the legal face of the burning conservative conviction, fanned vigorously by President Trump, that the real victims of speech suppression today are on the right.
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Whatever you think of the supposed war on right-wing speech, it so far has not been fought principally in the courtroom but on the servers of profit-motivated corporations more concerned with monthly active users than democratic principles.pic.twitter.com/X24LnAYLEX
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And as chaotic as the big platforms are right now, users’ expectations are not the thing that’s preventing them from moderating — censoring — more speech.pic.twitter.com/fJpbnsZGHl
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That’s frightening to Randazza. It’s a move away from a time-tested speech principle and toward a trendy profusion of speech rules — rules that they say are bound to boomerang on young liberals who don’t remember past speech wars. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/meet-the-free-speech-lawyer-fighting-to-keep-nazis-and?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …pic.twitter.com/jY23zZtoiu
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