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Despite the shooting, don’t be buffaloed into abandoning free speech

By Quin Hillyer
Published May 18, 2022 9:58am ET
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Despite the shooting, don’t be buffaloed into abandoning free speech
Responding to a horrific evil, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown proposed countermeasures that would make matters much worse. He proposed an outright ban on broad swaths of speech. On top of murder, he would add repression. Regrettably, CNN host Anderson Cooper did not challenge Mayor Brown’s suggestion. But everybody in public life should challenge it. Brown […]


Responding to a horrific evil, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown proposed countermeasures that would make matters much worse. He proposed an outright ban on broad swaths of speech. On top of murder, he would add repression.

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