The whole thing. He's protesting against CNN, but where is he protesting against the redditor? Surely both of them have an equal right to say what they said.
So your argument is that he's suppressing free speech by what he's chosen not to say? Protesting against CNN says nothing about his position on the redditor. It's a single video on a single protest, one that was outside CNN rather than outside HanSolo's house.
Come on, man. You can do better than that. Stop being vague and outline for me and everyone else exactly what he says that suppresses free speech. The words. There's a whole speech he has in there, a lot of which is political BS. Single out the attack on free speech.
After all, the original video was political opinion produced for a specific audience. It's the sort of thing that would appear as a political cartoon in the Sunday paper - a caricature of Trump in a boxing ring squaring off with a man in a suit wearing a CNN tag. In that sense, the redditor was acting as a member of the media. Why is he entitled to say what he said - when what he said amounts to the government attacking the press - when a news outlet is not?
Er, the protest was about CNN being bullies, as far as I could tell. That, and Milo's right versus left demagoguery. I'm not sure that you can find him saying that CNN aren't allowed to say what they did. I'm not even sure from memory that he said that they shouldn't, although it was obviously implied in that they disapprove of the behaviour. Most of it was him trying to get people to recognise how partisan and biased CNN and other media is, and how it's all a big conspiracy run by the democrats and blah blah blah tin foil hat.
But disapproving of what someone says, even vocally, is a long way from trying to silence them. Particularly when it's a national corporation who will probably barely notice that there was a protest beyond sending a couple extra security guards down.
The point is that Yiannopolis claims that free speech is of vital importance. His criticism falls within the purview if free speech, but he's criticising one and ignoring the other. How can he claim to be defending freedom of speech when he's clearly applying it differently?
He's not. Point out the exact words that he uses that are him calling for the suppression of freedom of speech. No vagaries. No "it's the whole video". Be specific. The rest of us aren't seeing what you see. Spell it out.
Pretend that you're demonstrating for your students exactly how to put together a well constructed argument, one that doesn't rely on other people having the same knowledge and perception as you.
As far as I can tell, HanSolo has exercised his free speech to make a silly gif. CNN has exercised their free speech to report on it, albeit in a manner that some find quite aggressive and bullying. Others, Milo included, have exercised their free speech to express their disapproval of how CNN has reported on the matter.
Is there somehow a problem with any of that? I'd say CNN bullied HanSolo into removing what he said, but my understanding is that it was removed prior to CNN getting in on the act.
Encouraging violence is not protected under free speech.
Parody and satire are, though.
