IN AMERICA, the fight for free speech sometimes produces odd alliances. Nearly four decades ago, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a left-leaning advocacy group, famously defended the right of neo-Nazis to march through a neighbourhood in Skokie, Illinois, in which many Holocaust survivors lived. Now a similarly controversial case may be at hand. Yesterday the ACLU filed a complaint in a federal court against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) for its restrictive advertising policy. Though the suit seeks to vindicate the rights of two organisations on the left of the political spectrum—an animal-rights group and an abortion provider—it is also standing up for a right-wing provocateur’s right to advertise his new book in the subway tunnels of the capital.
Milo Yiannopoulos is no typical conservative. He is a flamboyantly gay former editor at “Breitbart News” who condemns same-sex marriage, tells gays...Continue reading
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