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The 2016 Holberg Debate with Timothy Garton Ash: "Free Speech in an Age of Diversity and Conflict"

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The Unprecedented Opportunity for Free Speech

About 3 billion people now have a smartphone or internet connection. What you say in London, on the smartphone, can be seen and heard across the world. That is an amazing opportunity for free speech, unprecedented. It's also a huge danger because it also means that someone posts a video called In essence of Muslims in California and people die in riots in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A death sentence of fatwa is spoken in Raka or Tehran and someone dies in Berlin or Paris like Charlie Hebdo. We've never been in a world like that before.

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