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This is really important. There's a tendency to conflate 'free speech' with 'uncurated speech' but they're different. Social signalling is how we avoid having to criminalise and enforce many difficult to define but terrible behaviours. The choices reputable institutions make shape that signal.

We do not want people to feel comfortable loudly discussing the comparative merits of various racial groups at the pub. It is harder to maintain the social signal that this kind of thing is not on if every week a new paper of record is publishing a glowing profile of Nick Fuentes.

I take it you’ve never hung around anywhere in SW Florida where virtually everyone thinks they’re the embodiment of a lovable Archie Bunker, blathering bigoted views loudly everywhere from Publix to early bird specials at the VFW