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by rudolfwinestock 2020 days ago
Nitpick: The article on Hunter Biden which Twitter blocked came from the New York Post rather than the New York Times.

Furthermore, the Right being more permissive with respect to public speech is true, but rather recent. Historically, the Right tended to argue for the moral legitimacy of censorship whereas the Left tended to call any such effort a step towards tyranny.

Our current trends are very unusual, historically speaking.