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The right to speech vs. the right to censor

Yiannopoulos’ stint as a free-speaking provocateur ended when an indisputably wrong clip resurfaced

MILO YIANNOPOULOS IS MANY things: a onetime editor at the alt-right website Breitbart, a gay and partly Jewish man who regularly disparaged gays and Jews, the self-described “most fabulous supervillain of the Internet” and, in his own words, a “free-speech warrior.” Yiannopoulos’ expert trolling earned him prominence on the far right, proof to many on that side that theirs was the true party of free speech—not politically

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