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A few free speech defenders are consistently consistent about supporting it, but for the most part they are concerned about freedom of their favored speech. Even the ACLU has appeared to waffle a bit.

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I think those that defended freedom of speech were in fact very consistent as they argued from principle. It is projection again, since people now complain that the argument "you have a right to free speech but no right to a platform" didn't think that position through to the end and now it bites them back.

And the ACLU has consistently have separated from defending freedom of speech and now is more or less a different institution. It isn't synonymous with most liberal positions on freedom of speech anymore.

I agree that they argued from principle ca 2022. But if they're not arguing at all now, those principles were falsely put forth as bad faith arguments. We don't see reports of Greenwald, Taibbi, even Elon Musk, who argued for absolute freedom of speech when he bought twitter, arguing for it now.

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