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247. Jacob Mchangama on Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

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You Don't Have to Tell Everyone Everything You Think

You're not free to just blurt out anything you want any timein life. Would be pretty catastrophic for you if you did that. I my s a certain amount of politeness that goes with a civil societya that requires you just keep your mouth shut. So, and then there's lies of omission. You don't have to tell everybody everything that you've doneor, you know, or that you're thinking. And maybe that's better, so, you know. Nd, i between those are like libel laws. If you now, if i say something about you that harms you, but it's slight, it's not just i disagree with your opinions, but that

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