Our speech police are dirty cops

The First Amendment needs to be reined in, liberal journalist Emily Bazelon explained Wednesday. That was the same day Twitter and Facebook bowed to the angry, liberal mob and blocked access from their platforms to a reported story that reflected poorly on Joe Biden.

The United States’s nearly absolute tolerance for free speech is detrimental, Bazelon argued in the New York Times Magazine. She fretted about “hate speech” and “disinformation.” And because nobody believes hate speech or deliberate lying are good things, it takes an ideological commitment to free speech to argue against this viewpoint, and that commitment is increasingly rare in America today.