Exploring the complexities of defining truth and the role of false ideas in the competition of ideas, the chapter highlights the risks of government censorship on misinformation and disinformation.
“…in those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech.” Silence Dogood, pseudonym of Benjamin Franklin, The New-England Courant, Number 49, 2-9 July 1722 Freedom of […]
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Free Speech, Censorship, and the Threat of Totalitarianism first appeared on
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