
1. Freedom of Speech
The Reith Lectures
The Answer to Bad Speech Is More Speech
When we censor the purveyors of bad ideas, we risk making them martyrs. Free speech absolutism would be appropriate only for a theoretical world inhabited by animated ideas rather than humans. Some speech restrictions are necessary in a civilized world. But who decides just how narrow and how clear restrictions should be?
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