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I think you're skipping part of the reason people are annoyed at her: she had consistently claimed that she's trying to advance the case of free speech (her publication was even called "the free press"). So there's a great deal of hypocrisy in her imposing top-down pro-regime censorship on a major news organization.

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But her first notable achievement in her career was calling for professors to be disciplined for criticisms of Israel, so that claim to be about free speech was always an obvious lie.

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-fals...

That's a decent point, but I left it out for two reasons. One is that she's the head of the news department. Part of her job is to decide what goes out or not. Two is that it isn't clear if it's postponed or not.

I felt like your comment above about Weiss' background was actually misleading because you did leave out the most important current point about her, which is that she appears to be a conservative enforcer and was only appointed to the position because they thought she would block negative things about conservatives. And she has done exactly that in this case.

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