No he’s a victim of the state. Your worldview just thinks that’s justified because you don’t believe in free speech.

Tommy is best friends with Maajid Nawaz, someone who sat next to me at school. I have no doubt whatsoever that both of them are shills and that both of them work for the UK security services.

If you interpret my comment as meaning I don’t believe in free speech, then the parameters of your argument are extremely black-and-white. Free speech is by definition a dialectic between state and the citizenry. By your logic Hitler was victimised by the state when he was arrested in 1929.

Interesting observation. I‘ve read somewhere else that he had links.

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Hitler pulled a violent coup. They aren’t at all similar. Furthermore free speech isn’t about endorsing every view; it’s about protecting the right to speak without fear of state retaliation. When you say “free speech is a dialectic,” you’re really just dressing up censorship as nuance. But there’s nothing nuanced about the state deciding which views are tolerable. That’s not a dialectic it’s control.