CHRISTIAN TOTO: Why Hollywood’s Silence on Free Speech Matters. “Bill Maher is all alone. Again.”

Naturally:

How many stars held their nose and said the Alex Jones of the world deserve to have a voice, too? Chelsea Handler, Billy Eichner, George Takei and Debra Messing did just the opposite, cheering on Jones’ dismissal via their Twitter accounts.

That, Maher said, is simply wrong.

“If you’re a liberal, you’re supposed to be for free speech. That’s free speech for the speech you hate. That’s what free speech means. We’re losing the thread of the concepts that are important to this country. If you care about the real American s*** or you don’t. And if you do, it goes for every side. I don’t like Alex Jones, but Alex Jones gets to speak. Everybody gets to speak.”

He’s right, of course.

Jones isn’t part of the privileged class, and what fun is privilege if it doesn’t mean denying others the things you enjoy the most?