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Ep. 99 John Stuart Mill’s ‘On Liberty’

So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast

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The Same Vagueness Problem With Hate Speech

In First Amendment jurisprudence, for example, we have this idea of fighting. The idea that certain kinds of words are themselves so harmful,. So society is able to step in and say, okay, in these circumstances, you're not allowed to say this. Adam Gamora: It may be that some of the things that we count as hate speech really are harmful. And if they are, then that would mean that Mill's principle doesn't protect them from social interference.

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