We have previously noted how today’s left, who in past years were the most vociferous defenders of absolute freedom of speech, have now gone in very much the opposite direction. The New York Times and The Washington Post went to court in 1971 to fight President Richard Nixon’s attempts to prevent publication of the so-called Pentagon Papers, winning their case  in New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971).

Well, that was then, and this is now. One of the Times Editorial Board members, Greg Bensinger, opined that Twitter under Elon Musk will be a scary place, because, Heaven forfend! it might allow Donald Trump back on the platform, and that:

central to (Mr Musk’s) vision for the service is for it to be an “inclusive arena for free speech,” but users should understand what that phrase means: It means free speech for people like Mr. Musk, a billionaire and the world’s richest man. Even as Twitter’s board on Monday was debating his offer of $54.20 per share, which it accepted, Mr. Musk was setting the tone for his leadership by tweeting that Securities and Exchange Commission officials were “shameless puppets.”

Loosening content moderation, as Mr. Musk appears poised to do, won’t make Twitter a better place; that will make it far more toxic. Under the notion that more speech is the best antidote to harmful speech, earnest users can probably expect to be shouted down even more frequently by trolls and bots. (I am hopeful Mr. Musk was serious when he said he’ll “defeat the spam bots or die trying!”)

Female Twitter users, in particular, ought to worry about whether Mr. Musk will bring his apparent disdain for women to the company he is about to own. Twitter is already a toxic place for women who use it, particularly those of color.

This was hardly the first time that the Times, that staunch defender of freedom of speech and of the press when it comes to their First Amendment rights, has wanted them stifled when it came to other people. The Times also gave major OpEd space to Andrew Marantz, a staff writer for The New Yorker, to tell us that Free Speech Is Killing Us, and to Chad Malloy^[1]Chad Malloy is a male who thinks he is a woman, and goes by the faux name “Parker” Malloy. to tell us How Twitter’s Ban on ‘Deadnaming’ Promotes Free Speech.

It’s not just the Times. From Le*gal In*sur*rec*tion:

Twitter to Ban Use of ‘Groomers’ After Pressure From Liberal Outrage Mongers

“Right-wing users have spent months targeting LGBTQ users on Twitter with offensive accusations of ‘grooming,’ contributing to a climate of harassment and violence,” Media Matters alleged in an article demanding that Twitter take action.

Posted by Stacey Matthews | Saturday, July 23, 2022 | 2:00 PM EDT

Since leftists control most popular social media platforms, when their woke acolytes demand they get more aggressive with the thought and speech policing of conservatives, those platforms respond accordingly by tightening the reins and dropping the hammer on the allegedly offensive accounts, often on the ones that are influential and have large followings.

Such was the case earlier this week thanks in part to an aggressive online campaign started by the left-wing frauds at Media Matters for America (MMFA) and inspired by earlier actions taken by Reddit to crack down on the use of the word “groomers” when it is being used to describe, well, people who sound an awful lot like groomers.

According to Media Matters, allegations of grooming against educators—especially those who are using platforms like TikTok to openly brag about indoctrinating children with LGBTQ-themed sexualized content—by popular Twitter accounts like Libs of TikTok and ConceptualJames have led to a rise in violence against members of the LGBTQ community because according to them, “groomers” is a “slur” and code-word used by the right “to brand gay and transgender people as child molesters, evoking an earlier era of homophobia.”

There’s more at Miss Matthews’ original.

Let’s face it: the left are getting their precious little feelings hurt when conservatives do something really radical like tell the truth.

An obvious question: if Twitter is going to ban the use of the word Groomer — and the hashtag #Groomers is still up on Twitter — why wouldn’t Twitter similarly ban calling other people misogynist or homophobes or transphobes? The answer is obvious: Twitter’s leadership actively supports the homosexual and transgender agenda! Twitter, and as we noted on Saturday, the Associated Press, want to force debate to the left by forcing the use of the language preferred by the left. The left don’t like the truth because they can’t handle the truth, and they are deathly afraid of other people hearing the truth.