How to Protest Without Silent Gestures in Public Speaking

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Milo and his team would go in there days before and post these posters that said, you know, snowflakes, run for your dorms. And so i was posting on twitter, because i have done a lot of public speaking. You know what what public speakers hate more than anything else is a half empty or empty room. If you really want to hurt milo, just don't go. I mean, he would be crusheda,. righthe the last thing he wants is, youknow, is, is a happy crowd. He wants a, want the protesters. But of course, he's different than someone like, if you brought in aam a george will

Online trolls and fascist chat groups. Controversies over campus lectures. Cancel culture versus censorship. The daily hazards and debates surrounding free speech dominate headlines and fuel social media storms. In an era where one tweet can launch — or end — your career, and where free speech is often invoked as a principle but rarely understood, learning to maneuver the fast-changing, treacherous landscape of public discourse has never been more urgent. In Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All, Suzanne Nossel, a leading voice in support of free expression, delivers a vital, necessary guide to maintaining democratic debate that is open, free-wheeling but at the same time respectful of the rich diversity of backgrounds and opinions in a changing country.

Shermer and Nossel discuss: private vs. government restrictions on speech; hate speech, libel, slander, compelled speech; incitement to violence and insurrection; cancel culture; social media censorship; the euphemism treadmill, and more…