Why You Don't Want to Criminalize Speech?

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i remember one of these campus d platformings, or the hecklers veto attempt to silence one of the speakers. Some other students just stood up and said, shut up. I want to hear what he has to say. And so they're, in a way, defending their right try speech, to hear speech. i think that's also basically one of the reasons why you all so don't want to criminalize speech.

Hailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy, and it is subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat.

In this episode, based on the book Free Speech, Michael Shermer and Jacob Mchangama discuss the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of the principle, how much we have gained from it, and how much we stand to lose without it. Mchangama reveals how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. Yet the desire to restrict speech, too, is a constant.