There’s a certain faction of Americans that simply think it’s fine to censor people for having pro-Palestinian views. They won’t admit it yet. Right now they torture logic to argue that those views are not just opinions but part of a criminal conspiracy, or that non-citizens have no free speech rights whatsoever, or that the government probably has secret evidence of much worse stuff that they’re not sharing with us for national security reasons.

In a week or two all those rationales will fall away, and there will be a rising chorus of voices saying simply that if you criticize the Israeli government you’re a terrorist and have no rights. And it won’t be limited to non-citizens.

Yes, but it's a natural consequence of teaching people that censoring speech may be justifiable or even good. That notion must be rooted out at its core, or we're just going to have different groups censoring different things depending on who has the power to do so.

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Fighting actual disinformation is extremely important, but censoring it often ends up just giving it more power. And then there's extending its definition to “any information that potentially might not suit my agenda”.

Yes, and that's where liberals are much to blame for the current situation, since they spent the last four years insisting that censorship of "disinformation" wasn't censorship, and that free speech is dangerous.