Social media helps trolls who help themselves

Jordan Peterson is thinking of launching a censorship-free online platform. It could be an excellent idea, or it could go terribly.

The Canadian professor’s idea is nice: Encourage discourse by letting all ideas battle it out. In his famous treatise against censorship, “Areopagitica,” John Milton said truth is best understood when all opinions are free to see the light of day. “Let [Truth] and Falsehood grapple,” he wrote. “Who ever knew Truth put to the [worse], in a free and open encounter.”