Oversight

The Left-Wing Case for Free Speech

Stomping out speech we dislike will cause more harm than good

Trevor Timm
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Published in
5 min readSep 28, 2018

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If you read the New York Times op-ed page or make the mistake of looking at political Twitter for more than two minutes, you’d think “free speech” had become an obscenity.

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Trevor Timm
GEN
Writer for

Trevor Timm is the executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation. His writing has appeared the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Intercept.