How much free speech is too much?

Why the First Amendment shouldn’t be the guideline for policing hate speech online

Justin Ward
The Startup
Published in
5 min readSep 18, 2019

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I follow a lot of alt-right accounts on Twitter for research purposes, and today “race realist” YouTuber Jean-Francois Gariepy popped up on my timeline. He was indulging in some Schadenfreude over Jennifer Gunter, a Canadian OB/GYN, complaining that her tweet had been…

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Justin Ward
The Startup

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD