The difference between the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times is that the WSJ's editorial board is worse than the NYT's but interferes with their coverage less. The NYT's editorial board is better but interferes with their coverage more. Ultimately, the WSJ does a better job of separating fact from opinion.

The whole promise of "free speech" is that the rules are constantly under renegotiation. The current spate of recalibration is due to society expressing that they are sick of white male bullshit. Since white males have infinitely more media access than anyone else, we hear a truly one-sided discussion. For the first time since the '60s someone other than white men are raising their voices and the white men are outraged.

Ideas aren't to be feared, and we should be able to debate any ideas, even if just to confirm to ourselves that they're bad.

The morass over "cancel culture" and "heresy" is not over the lack of debate, it's over the fact that white men are not being allowed to say whatever the fuck they want to say without having to suffer any debate.