
247. Jacob Mchangama on Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
The Michael Shermer Show
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The European Union Is a Half Way Prohibited Holocos Denial
A lot of member states prohibit holocost denial, and the european union is a sort of half way prohibited holocos denial. And then you had a lot of eastern and central european countries who said, ok, but then we wanta criminalization of the denial of the crimes of communism. I think that sends a very compli difficult message. Ultimately, it plays into the hands of some of the anti semetic tropes about how jews in control the mediam and control the narrative. But if open democracies, if our past,. you know, history is obviously incredibly important for any nation to have a better understanding of where comfort came from or why our values are
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