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1. Freedom of Speech

The Reith Lectures

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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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