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172. Andrew Doyle — Free Speech: And Why it Matters

The Michael Shermer Show

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I Love Your Passion for Speech, Jut Is Greyilo

i invoke what i call hitchens dictum, which is to say, from christopher hitchins, that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. It's astonishing to me that people are just so promiscuously applying these terms like libel doesn't exist any more. And by the way, of someone, and like i've said in the book, i don't think libel is a free speech issue. I think if some one smears you and defames you, you know, bearing in mind that that kind of label can really damage your career prospects, i think people should take action against that. Maybe if more people did, than this would stop.

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