Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments: Featuring That XKCD Cartoon Everyone Likes to Quote! areomagazine.com/2021/05/25/ans… By the great @glukianoff 
"If you empower the government to censor, you are giving the powerful more power... Do you trust what a Biden administration would do with that power? If so, do you trust what the next Trump would do with that power?" areomagazine.com/2021/05/25/ans…
"Censorship doesn't generally change people's opinions, but it does make them more likely to talk only to those with whom they already agree. And what happens when people only talk to politically similar people? The well documented effect of group polarization takes over."
"What is civil is defined by the powerful or the majority. And they tend to see any speech with which they simply disagree as uncivil, while seeing any uncivil speech with which they agree as righteous rage." areomagazine.com/2021/05/25/ans…
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