Bernie and Rising wrong about some cancelling

Rising discusses Bernie's recent statement where he said:

"Do I feel particularly comfortable with the then President of the US could not express his views on Twitter? I don't feel comfortable about that."

They go on to argue the if the left wants to censor the views of those they disagree with then that same principle applies to them. That is an erroneous assumption, as it's not just a simple disagreement with views; it's a fight against the sort of outright lies and incitement to violence that Twitler most certainly did and which deserve cancelling. Twitter and other companies did the right thing in banning him.

That is not protected free speech in the 1st Amendment and it is not valid to give it equal freedom as a difference of opinion. If fact, it is expressly not so. That sort of illogic leads directly down the road to fascism. And no, fascism is not just a difference of opinion with democracy; the latter must defeat the former. We cannot let false equivalence arguments about free speech for fascists like Twit go unchallenged.