Save Free Speech From Trolls

Save Free Speech From Trolls
(Ms. Sarkeesian and Ms. Quinn’s crime, according to someone who is definitely a lawyer: “pushing for a U. N. intervention
(Foreign Agents) with the intent to limit internet free speech which violates the First Amendment of the U. S.”)
If their goal was really to protect the First Amendment, they would have at least blinked when the White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, confirmed
that President Trump is considering amending libel laws, presumably so he can prosecute journalists who hurt his feelings.
The refrain has become so ubiquitous that it’s earned its own sarcastic homophone in progressive circles: “freeze peach!” Nothing is more important than the First Amendment, the internet men say, provided you interpret the First Amendment exactly the same way they do: as a magic spell
that means no one you don’t like is allowed to criticize you.
“There are women who have said to me, or to people in my circles, that they don’t want to be me,” Ms. Sarkeesian told me.
“Freedom of speech is such a buzzword that people can rally around,” Ms. Sarkeesian said, “and that works really well in their favor.
Ms. Sarkeesian has been relentlessly stalked, abused
and threatened since 2012, when she started a Kickstarter campaign to fund a series of YouTube videos critiquing the representation of women in video games.