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The Difficulties of Supporting Both Free Speech and the ADL

Ordinary people have had enough of institutions collaborating with tech companies to censor the disfavored for the ‘public good.’

“… Ironically, the early beneficiaries of the campaign were the real antisemites the ADL is supposed to be fighting, as well as Mr. Greenblatt himself. The haters opportunistically pointed to the ADL’s bad behavior.

Predictably such haters used it to advance their narrative that all Jews are nefarious actors engaged in an international plot to control the press. Mr. Greenblatt then pointed to these antisemites’ threads and suggested that the world needed more ADL-style speech monitoring to defeat all forms of “hate.”

Yet as the campaign grew, it became clear that most of the posts were not authored by antisemites. They were written by ordinary people who have had enough of institutions collaborating with tech companies to censor the disfavored for the “public good,” while only concerning themselves with one half of the public.”

Greenblatt is Al Sharpton with worse hair. Good piece, a brief but compelling argument calling for the Jewish community to disown the ADL.

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