Note, old Reason was pretty wild in content and contributors:
"Did Reason Really Publish a "Holocaust Denial 'Special Issue'" in 1976?"
https://reason.com/2014/07/26/did-reason-really-publish-a-ho...
> Another of that issue's contributors, Gary North, would later be excoriated in this 1998 Reason article for arguing in favor of violent theocracy and the stoning of gays and others.
Reason isn't my favorite libertarian outlet. The pejorative commonly used is "beltway libertarian". There's a divide between the Rothbardians and the Koch, Reason and Cato types. Even today, you can find a somewhat recent crusade against Hoppe by a Koch funded academic Phil Magness. Of course Reason uncritically gave airtime to this crusade.
That said, whenever there is a vaguely free-market publication submitted here, the guilt-by-association comments seem to come out of the woodwork.
Interesting that the same is not true for CNN, BBC or the New York Times articles. They all have a long history of printing horrible deceptions. We could squabble over these past misdeeds or discuss the article at hand on the merits.
Try bringing up communism and see what happens. It'll be all guilt by association with various dictators concerned more with with personal power than communism (i.e. exactly like capitalist dictators).
The libertarian movement was largely dragged from obscurity in the 80s by the Kochs during their fights with the EPA.
That's where all that nonsense about hairdresser licensing got its headwinds. It was entirely an investor driven ideology, with its roots in letting rich businessmen enrich themselves by freeing themselves from the constraints of "overbearing" environmental regulations.
Maybe CNN and the BBC are more often submitted here due to the actual news they are covering rather than as part of an agenda that they are continually and explicitly expounding and so need that context less?
Maybe you can elaborate on how "stoning gays" is relevant in this context?