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The "whole point" is to sell advertising and books. Having a coherent set of ideas is not necessary.

That only applies to companies that are paying Beck. This is a company that is not paying Beck allowing it's worker to harm the interests of companies who do. Intellectual consistency is not a big priority here.

He could be for more freedom and still be opposed to what they do with that freedom. I'm for freedom of speech but feel some of you all should just shut up. I'm not, however, saying there should be a law preventing you from speaking.

I have no opinion on whether google is behind the protests. I suspect they didn't have a big hand in it at all.