About two weeks ago, I highlighted the political significance of prominent radical feminist Meghan Murphy, who owns the Feminist Current web site that I frequently visit and link to often, being banned from Twitter for disagreeing with the transgender movement in that said development opened a dialogue between radical feminists and the (mostly libertarian) right wing. More recently, she was interviewed on the subject by The Hill and I wanted to share that interview with people so that hopefully everyone can see where she is (and really I too am) coming from with regard to opposing gender identity politics and on freedom of speech. She does a good job of defending her position, IMO. You can find it in video form here. It's about 11 minutes. (There's no YouTube version available to embed. Sorry, I did look for one!)
To me, the interviewer seemed to be trying to goad her a bit (particularly with the disingenuous comparison to Alex Jones that just haaaaappened to get slipped in), but she didn't take the bait and instead focused on calmly making a clear case that Twitter's new policies are unreasonably restrictive. One point I agreed with especially strongly was the point Murphy made about how social media sites like Twitter have become the new public square in effect because it's the truth. The fact that today's public square is privately owned has these sort of worrying ramifications about the potential for just a few people to effectively shut off public debate about very important political subjects and questions like what a woman is. I'm also increasingly inclined to agree with her that while threats of physical violence should be prohibited and those prohibitions actually enforced on these platforms for a change, beyond that sort of obvious thing, people should generally be allowed to speak freely on these massive, multinational platforms that have far more members than our country has residents. Personally, I think that these social media conglomerates should be treated as public utilities since they functionally are.