Facebook is right to boot abusers such as Farrakhan, Jones and Yiannopoulos
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
May 03, 2019
3 minutes
Facebook has permanently banned several hate-spewing firebrands, including Chicago-based Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan, Infowars host Alex Jones and former Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos, for being extremist and "dangerous." It's about time.
My normal default position is to push back against censorship of speech. The best response to offensive speech, as civil libertarians say, is more speech -- counterspeech that offers opposing views.
But the digital age has brought us
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