Here’s the progressive argument for censoring Joe Rogan, reduced to a single sentence:
People are too stupid to make any decisions for themselves — except, apparently, about how to vote.
The argument for letting him say what he wants hasn’t changed since it was so brilliantly articulated by John Stuart Mill in 1859:
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
