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Farhad Manjoo is a reporter for the New York Times who writes about tech<\/a>issues. His latest passion is a beef with free speech, though of course as a leftist, he would never frame it that way.<\/p>\n More specifically, Manjoo is upset that a Google search about Hillary\u2019s health turns up what he calls \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d And because he\u2019s decided the negative information available on line about her health is unfounded, Google should \u201cfix\u201d the problem.<\/p>\n Now as a quick aside, the point isn\u2019t even whether something is a conspiracy theory, or not. Free speech means that if people want to put hard facts up on the Internet, they can. And if people want to put conspiracy theories on the Internet, they can as well.<\/p>\n And, as another aside, Mr. Manjoo is not the arbiter of what is fact and what is fiction, or a \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d as he calls it. That\u2019s the whole point of free speech. When speech is censored, who does the censoring? Who decides what is acceptable speech and what is unacceptable? That is the slippery slope we should not step on (though it\u2019s a bit late for that warning since we\u2019re already sliding and picking up speed with black ice ahead when October rolls around, America loses control of the Internet<\/a>, and the vacuum is filled by countries that are bad actors.)<\/p>\n Breitbart reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Go online and put down, \u2018Hillary Clinton illness,\u2019 and take a look at the videos yourself,\u201d Rudy Giuliani recently said on Fox News, during an argument about how sick Clinton really is.<\/p>\n Manjoo of the Times<\/em> called for Google to \u201cfix\u201d the problem of search results possibly hurting the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n \u201cGoogle should fix this. It shouldn\u2019t give quarter to conspiracy theorists,\u201d Manjoo tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n Democrats = leftists = progressives = fascists.<\/p>\n