The Importance of Free Speech

There seems to be a divide on this across different countries. In the U.S., free speech is incompatible with having laws that ban speech simply because it's offensive, he says. The problem is there are so many ways in which speech can be offensive to different people and if we start allowing offense to be a ground for restriction 'it's very easy to generalize' He thinks Britain has benefited from overly rigorous protection of free speech.