In days of yore, the major threat to free speech came from the state and its
censorship.
That's no longer the case.
In fact, today it's often government courts that force universities to allow unpopular individuals to speak.
And there's plenty of opposition to free speech there,
as we know. Just the other day, the president of the College Democrats at the University of California, Santa Cruz, came under attack for defending the College Republicans' right to speak.
Meanwhile in the private sector, an errant Tweet or even the offhand expression of an unfashionable opinion (usually something the whole world believed just six months earlier) can be enough to cost you your
job and your professional reputation.
Of course, according to libertarian theory private institutions may hire or fire as they wish. But that doesn't make this phenomenon any less worth observing (or warning about).
Hence the need for an income stream that doesn't rely on staying in the good graces of
insane lunatics.
If you haven't seen Fred Lam's latest workshop on eCommerce -- a newbie-friendly approach that my listeners have had good success with -- you owe it to yourself to check it out. You will learn something, I guarantee.
This is being taken down at midnight tonight and his
program closes for good tomorrow, so do please try to find the time to watch:
Tom Woods
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