NATE SILVER: Free speech is in trouble: Young liberals are abandoning it — and other groups are too comfortable with tit-for-tat hypocrisy.

Read the essay, but but game theory says that tit-for-tat is the best enforcement means for repeat interactions. “It encourages cooperation, it punishes defection, and it responds to each change in its opponent’s behavior.”

The only reason the Left traditionally supported free speech was to protect itself. Once it didn’t need to do that any more, it abandoned its protection, and it started censoring.