Vice News on Thursday published an homage to the YouTube political personality Natalie Wynn. Deferring to Wynn’s thinly veiled authoritarian tendencies, Vice disregarded that which normally makes it great: respect for free speech.

Operating the ContraPoints channel, Wynn describes herself as on a mission to “deradicalize” young, white, conservative men. Wynn apparently does this by dressing up in a variety of outfits and styles of makeup. But watching Vice’s fawning interview, I quickly realized that Wynn isn’t so much interested in deradicalizing the far-right as she is in delegitmizing social debate.