For me I just think there is a fundamental tension between free speech and free association. How that gets resolved is going to end up depending on the details of the exact particulars and where people want to draw the lines, but there will always be lines.
Like a lot of people I think I would try to draw some sort of line between the "ca…
For me I just think there is a fundamental tension between free speech and free association. How that gets resolved is going to end up depending on the details of the exact particulars and where people want to draw the lines, but there will always be lines.
Like a lot of people I think I would try to draw some sort of line between the "cancel culture" of online literal mobs hounding third party organizations to punish speech they don't like (cancel this speaker, fire this guy who had a maga bumpersticker, whatever).
And "cancellations" that are more directly made by a party negatively impacted rather than ginned up by a social media mob or astoturf letter writing/email campaign.
People shouldn't have to hire people they fundamentally dislike. I wouldn't want to hire a Nazi, (or a Harvard student).
At the same time the overall social norm of people not punishing others for political or other speech they disagree with as long as it is reasonably non-harmful has been a tremendously valuable social principle, both in the first amendment and more informally.
But then of course the weasels get in there and start stretching harm beyond any reason...
For me I just think there is a fundamental tension between free speech and free association. How that gets resolved is going to end up depending on the details of the exact particulars and where people want to draw the lines, but there will always be lines.
Like a lot of people I think I would try to draw some sort of line between the "cancel culture" of online literal mobs hounding third party organizations to punish speech they don't like (cancel this speaker, fire this guy who had a maga bumpersticker, whatever).
And "cancellations" that are more directly made by a party negatively impacted rather than ginned up by a social media mob or astoturf letter writing/email campaign.
People shouldn't have to hire people they fundamentally dislike. I wouldn't want to hire a Nazi, (or a Harvard student).
At the same time the overall social norm of people not punishing others for political or other speech they disagree with as long as it is reasonably non-harmful has been a tremendously valuable social principle, both in the first amendment and more informally.
But then of course the weasels get in there and start stretching harm beyond any reason...