{"id":36281,"date":"2017-02-10T09:19:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T09:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=36281"},"modified":"2017-02-10T09:19:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T09:19:43","slug":"my-deeply-libertarian-instincts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/02\/10\/my-deeply-libertarian-instincts\/","title":{"rendered":"My deeply libertarian instincts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had an article on The Conversation<\/a> website yesterday that elaborated my thinking on the sale of student debt, already rehearsed on this blog <\/a>earlier this week. I stress, the article was commissioned, based on that blog post. And on The Conversation there are editors who make demands of an author.<\/p>\n

It's been interesting to note the reaction in the comments section. Seemingly orchestrated by Tim Worstall <\/a>(who seems only able to write about me in the last day or so), many of those who regularly populate his Alt-Right comments section, which is notable for its aggressive offensiveness, have taken to maligning, squealing in their delight at being able to do so and highlighting the fact that I routinely block far-right, usually male, deeply offensive aggressiveness from the comments section of this blog precisely because my belief in fees speech makes it a necessity to do so.<\/p>\n

Bullying and freedom cannot co-exist. It is something they have not noticed.<\/p>\n

Others have though. I was discussing the phenomena of online aggression with an MEP yesterday. They said online aggression was something they had been forced to get used to as a result of their work, but it made it no less unpleasant. They also wondered if awareness of such aggression put many off standing for office. I think it might. In that case these people's fight against freedom and liberty may have a deeply undesirable consequence. And that just reinforces my own determination to give them no air time. My deeply libertarian instincts demand that I don't.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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