Comment by throw0101d

> I would expect a Nobel prize winner, MIT and Princeton professor and New York Times contributor to be able to construct proper arguments not emotional outbursts:

¿Porque no los dos? This is is popular culture newsletter, not a peer reviewed journal. He can write articles that are more or less wonkish, geared more or less to academics or the general public, as he feels.

> In Canada during Covid protest the government gave itself emergency powers and shut down bank accounts of protesters.

They did not shut down bank accounts of protestors but of occupiers. Occupiers that did not disperse when ordered and were deemed a threat to public order. An inquiry mandated by the legislation found the events met the threshold for invocation:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Order_Emergency_Commiss...