Last year the hard-Left “journalist” Zack Beauchamp wrote a windy and mendacious piece attacking various foes of jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others (including me). Now he is joining the Left’s gleeful vultures’ chorus over Milo Yiannopoulos’ financial woes, from which he happily concludes that “the controversial no-platforming tactics — which range from activists noisily disrupting speeches to big tech corporations banning provocateurs from their platforms — really can work.”
As I’ve noted many times, neither Leftists nor Islamic supremacists want to engage in discussion or debate with their opponents. They just want to shut them down. The freedom of speech is the foundation of any free society, but fascists such as Zack Beauchamp are working toward an authoritarian state in which those who dare to dissent from the Leftist agenda will be ruthlessly suppressed. And they’re not even bothering to hide their totalitarian aspirations anymore.
“Milo Yiannopoulos’s collapse shows that no-platforming can work,” by Zack Beauchamp, Vox, December 5, 2018:
…Yiannopoulos openly concedes that his desperate financial situation — and that’s what this is, braggadocio aside — is the result of the concerted campaign against him by his opponents. “I am pretty broke, relatively speaking,” he says. “Two years of being no-platformed, banned, blacklisted and censored…has taken its toll.”
What this episode shows is that under the right circumstances, the controversial no-platforming tactics — which range from activists noisily disrupting speeches to big tech corporations banning provocateurs from their platforms — really can work. There’s no evidence that Yiannopoulos’s no-platforming led to his ideas and personality gaining a kind of underground popularity, as some free speech advocates believe happens when speech is repressed. Instead, they simply went six feet under….