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247. Jacob Mchangama on Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

The Michael Shermer Show

Free Speech - What's the Difference Between a Government Censor and a Private Company?

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A representative in congress, marjori taylor green, was de platform from twitter for posting a comments about vaccines and so on. So this is your your job now, wright, your day job, you are a defender freoeach. You write a lot about this subject. And i think that's a very important discussion to have in the realm of a social media - because these platforms are catering to billions of people depending which specific platform they use. Almost everyone around the world will say free speech is important,. But then when you ask people, you know, should free speech include the right to end to offend minorities? Then you see huge differences between countries and also within countries.

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