The core Enlightenment principle supporting free speech is that the best counter to a bad idea is a good idea, with both openly expressible and debatable. This stabilizes society by making everyone think and engage. To censor is to divide and polarize.
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In my view Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are on the wrong side of history in their decisions to censor content they disagree with. Authors must be free to express their ideas. They platform is free to repudiate its support or endorsement of their ideas.
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If Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, or Google leadership want to influence politics, they should do as respectable publishers and editors have done for centuries, and write editorials persuading readers of their views.
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