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#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Power of Hate Speech
I think that we have developed the culture in which it's understood that if you don't like what you hear you talk back. I used to as a kid in Brooklyn where I was born and raised in Bensonhurst we used to say sticks and stones can break by bones but names can never harm me. Well the internet has posed a particular challenge to free speech absolutors because of some of the stuff that’s on there is god awful. But I have no different rule for freedom of speech on the internet than I have in newspapers or in lectures or or in classrooms or or conversations among people.
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