Have any of the free speech worrywarts weighed in on the use of nuisance lawsuits to chill legitimate satirical comment? @jonathanchait @bariweiss @conor64 https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-trump-adviser-jason-miller-sues-will-menaker-of-chapo-trap-house-over-tweet …
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Jeet, would you care to do a side-by-side comparison of which of us more frequently defends freedom of expression for people who don’t share our own views? I suspect it will expose you—the person who regularly trolls with charges of inconsistency—to be far inferior on that metric
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You write about free speech far more than I do, and with an admirable consistency (although we could quarrel about relative salience given to stories). Which is why a comment on this case (which seems to be a clear case of libel chill) would be welcome.
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What a striking change in tone and comportment now that you’ve stopped pandering to your in-group with misleading sniping
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My in-group of .... what exactly? Chapo fans? I'm in their bad books for criticizing show's dominance politics. I'm no closer to Mennaker's politics than you. I just find the relative centrist silence on this worth remarking on.
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Jeet I like you both but you are, in fact, way closer than him
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More importantly, I think Menanker's position on political spectrum isn't salient here. Like Gawker, he won't have as many defenders as he deserves not because of leftism but because he's obnoxious and mean. But I think obnoxious, mean comments deserve free speech protection
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