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"This social silencing, this depluralizing of America, has been evident for years."

The editorial board of the New York Times generated a lot of conversation on Friday with a lengthy piece under the headline "America Has a Free Speech Problem."...

University in pennsylvania for students who are told action could be taken against them for using the wrong gender pronoun regardless of intent. this is an obvious free-speech problem and one student is speaking out, logan is a junior at point park university. is there any indication what the punishment will be from the university against people who violate this policy, what is the punishment? >> as of now no one knows what the punishment could be the, the student body received an email that if they miss gender someone can use pronouns action could be taken against them. i reached out to the s...

Could be taken against them for using the wrong gender pronouns regardless of intent. now, this is an obvious free-speech problem and at leas one student is speaking out. logan is a junior at point park university logan, is there any indication of what the punishment will be from the university against people who violate this policy? what is it? what is the policy punishment? >> as of now, no one knows what the punishment could be. we received an update e-mail saying if they were to miss gender someone misuse someone's pronouns or even to use their action could be taken against him. student go...

Twitter doing? >> each platform has their own approach to this idea. the problem is the anti-vacs idea, ideas can be viruses, too. it can literally physically harm people. things need to be done to stop it. what the platforms are trying to do, they're trying to address things without getting into the free speech problem. they want to try to do things from the margins. facebook says they've taken steps, knows it has more. google says it has systems in place. twitter says they want to make sure there is a balance of information people can get both pro vacs and antivaccination information. these ...