A photo of an excerpt from the linked article. It is a far cry from the principled stands comedians have taken against censorship in the past. Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, role models formany of today's free speech warriors, both did battle with government censors: Bruce was arrested, prosecuted and convicted for his act, while Carlin's led to a landmark supreme court decision that upheld the FCC's authority to regulate indecency and obscenity on the public airwaves. Today's generation of comedians prefer to use their hard-won liberties not as a weapon against the powerful, but as a license to operate free of any ethical obligations whatsoever. For these comedians, "freedom of speech" means the freedom to say anything you want, including to be cruel to racial minorities, women, trans people and immigrants; to associate with conspiracy theorists and lend their platforms to politicians set on undermining democracy.