Free Speech

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In the nineties, i was astonished to find out that this is illegal in many european countries. The idea that somebody could be arrested for this, you know, i just i was astonished by that. I thinka holycost denial is still on the books in most of these countries as a crime. But if we silence the the rooster, the sun rises anyway. So it wasn't the rooster as the cause of the sunrise. Ah, you can take a out and see if b happens. And in the laws, i understand, tha, this is the butt for, but for this person with a gun, that the murder wouldn't have happened.

Online trolls and fascist chat groups. Controversies over campus lectures. Cancel culture versus censorship. The daily hazards and debates surrounding free speech dominate headlines and fuel social media storms. In an era where one tweet can launch — or end — your career, and where free speech is often invoked as a principle but rarely understood, learning to maneuver the fast-changing, treacherous landscape of public discourse has never been more urgent. In Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All, Suzanne Nossel, a leading voice in support of free expression, delivers a vital, necessary guide to maintaining democratic debate that is open, free-wheeling but at the same time respectful of the rich diversity of backgrounds and opinions in a changing country.

Shermer and Nossel discuss: private vs. government restrictions on speech; hate speech, libel, slander, compelled speech; incitement to violence and insurrection; cancel culture; social media censorship; the euphemism treadmill, and more…