1. Matt his right here but it's worth asking why this "greatest threat to free speech" often isn't getting attention it deserves. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1053053265582219264 …
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3. Gawker, Menaker and (to a lesser extent) Splinter are unsympathetic defendants to some people because they were or are seen as mean & obnoxious. And they can be mean and obnoxious. But that should be immaterial to a free speech defense.
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4. One lesson from all this is that the civility fetish is in tension with free speech.
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5. This tweet admirably acknowledges the emotions at work here: distaste for Chapo leading to a feeling that they're getting what's coming to them even if lawsuit is obnoxious:https://twitter.com/KYCol_JR/status/1053659842177589248 …
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It’s never ideology to you is it?
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Well, if you want to stretch "ideology" to include "the ideology of civility" it is. But I was thinking of ideology as a more narrow left/right thing.
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