The 'cancel culture' debate gets the fight for free speech entirely wrong

For some, defending free speech has become a tool to bully others into silence. "It’s inescapable, the observation that the pro-free-speech activists exhibit the behaviour they ostensibly claim to be fighting: invoking blinding moral certainty, belittling people who disagree with them or threatening them with lawsuits." Eve Fairbanks contemplates the paradigms of cancel culture for The Washington Post.