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Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Wopeness Is Illiberal

A lot of it is, i think, just generational. It's just about every generation wants to do the opposite of what the one before them did. Free speech actually contains the seeds of its own destruction by unleashing forces that turn against it. What matters is being able to put forth ideas and have them accepted as part of the dialogue. And we're not living in a world where government would be clap down on free speech.

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