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1. Freedom of Speech

The Reith Lectures

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The Answer to Bad Speech Is More Speech

Censorship for the sake of tolerance is also a kind of capitulation, writes Peter Bergen. The idea that speech inciting violence should be censored does not hold up in court or on social media says Bergen. To impose silence and call it tolerance does not make it so, he adds. Real tolerance requires understanding; listening presupposes speech.

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