We all care mainly about our own lives, our own freedoms. The author is an adult dissident journalist writing about world affairs; when he talks about an attac

We all care mainly about our own lives, our own freedoms. The author is an adult dissident journalist writing about world affairs; when he talks about an attack on freedom, he means his freedom to do his brand of journalism. Anything to do with school libraries and school bathrooms is utterly irrelevant to his daily life, and (from his point of view) not really worth discussing. By contrast, for a queer school student (or a friend or parent of one), school library book bans and school bathroom gender laws are a blatant attack on freedom; while Twitter's censorship of dissident journalists at the behest of US three letter agencies is utterly irrelevant to their daily life, and (from their point of view) not really worth discussing.