Buckley: If an antifa protest breaks out into violence, those are local law breakers that should be prosecuted bythe city or the state. And it's quite separate from what happened on january sixth,. which is something entirely different than just breaking local laws. In most cities across the country, ah, those potests were overwhelmingly peaceful.
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Shermer and Nossel discuss: private vs. government restrictions on speech; hate speech, libel, slander, compelled speech; incitement to violence and insurrection; cancel culture; social media censorship; the euphemism treadmill, and more…