197 w/ Glenn Greenwald, Thomas Chatterton Williams "Hypocrisy, Controversy, Cancellations"
The Fifth Column
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I Think It's Important to Be Realistic About What the Letter Was Intended to Do
I think it's important to be realistic about what the letter was intended to do, which is not defend free speech and free discourse principles in a vacuum. And even though it didn't say that, that was the obvious context for the letter. It was going to be understood that way no matter what you did,. Anyone comfortable with and happy about the current restrictions being imposed on discourse, we're going to find ways to attack the letterNo matter what you doing," he said. "It was organizationally so challenging"
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