Free speech was the left’s rally cry. “Historically, the place you went to exercise your speech rights was the public square. This crackdown means that our public square might as well be in Brussels. At certain points in US history, an embrace of free speech was a liberal’s rhetorical trump card. If the left does abandon its free speech principles, it may come to regret it.

Source: The Guardian August 28, 2017 09:56 UTC