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Steven Nadler on Spinoza on Free Speech

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Seditious Speech?

'Sedition is a very dangerous word. Who decides what his seditious action? Seditious speech?' 'If i simply go out there and start screaming at the top of my lungs that president trump is an idiot, that sounds like it would not pass the test for spinoza as allowable speech,' he says. He adds: 'The way i was just suggesting, you may not libel or insult or say anything that might weaken the authority or power of the people who happen to be in office'

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