i presume you'd say that's probably different from private speech, compelled speech. And here we can shift to a free expression. Corporations that say, ok, look, if you want to work for macdonald this is the uniform you have to wear. That's a kind of compelled and express a restriction of expression. But on the other hand, you don't have to work there. They're not making you work there. And they'll ite y rules. You know, there might be special cases where you think, ok, this is ti tis is too much. I really don't like the licab and the berkand the signal that they sent whenyou then
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.