
Ep 20: Ch 10, Part 1 "A Dream of Socrates"
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The Government Attack on Free Speech
In the united states, which is actually really rare. I don't know of another country that has codified in the same way rights that protect free speech in their constitution. If he didn't have such laws, no such mistakes would be possible. But often judges and lawyers aren't the best to distinguish between what's comedy and what's serious. The average person is, but a highly learned lawyer might end up regarding something that was said in jest as being quite serious. And then some poor person gets sent off to jail mistakenly. That's the government attack upon speech. There's another attack on free speech as well. So we have large social movements who sometimes even go all the way
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