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[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

First off, thank you for taking the time to screenshot and preserve all of this, it must have taken you a while.

Second, I'm disappointed to see The Times shut down debate in such a blunt way. I don't read The Times because all of their articles are behind a paywall (in the UK at least) but I still hold them in my mind as being a fairly sensible, 'grown up' paper. To me, they have always been to the UK what the NYT is used to be to the United States. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some trananigans going on the comment section and the editors had no choice.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It seems like there are obvious generational rifts growing at many organizations like newspapers and the ACLU. The older employees are far more in favor of speech and the younger employees are freaking out trying to censor everything.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This article (a review of a book) explains the phenomenon somewhat. I read it the other day and found it quite interesting.