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172. Andrew Doyle — Free Speech: And Why it Matters

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Right to a Platform

If you're in charge of a student group that invites outside speakers, who do you invite? I mean, milonopolis, charles murray? You know, we don't have to enable everybody to have a voice, but we want some diversity. The idea that if you don't invite my lnopolis to the university, you are therefore violating his free speech is an absolute nonsense. My free speech is not threatened by that. It's absolutely fine. Right er is no automatic right to a platform.

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