The Issue With Free Speech

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Most of the robust defences of freedom of speech are coming from the right. But if you go back 30, forty years, it was mostly coming from the left. So this idea of left and right is a red herring - i think it's taking us in completely different viewi ways. The protect free speech has nothing to do with left and right. It shouldn't matter what way, where your allegiances lie. You're going to regret not doing something about it when you had the chance,. he says.

Political Correctness has formed the basis for a new intolerant mindset, actively policing speech that is deemed offensive or controversial. Rather than confront bad ideas through discussion, it has now become common to intimidate one’s detractors into silence. Taking on board legitimate concerns about how speech can be harmful, Andrew Doyle argues that the alternative — an authoritarian world in which our freedoms are surrendered to those in power — has far worse consequences.