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70: Free Speech, But… (with Dennis Baron)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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Free Speech, Freedom of Expression, Is It Okay?

Freedom of expression is written into the US Constitution, but in other countries, it's not in Australia. So I haven't had any legal ramifications for language. I've had some social ones. And then if they do swear, because maybe they belong to a community that is more swearing, you know, and then what happens is the people who get called up for this kind of thing are more likely than not to be Aboriginal people. Right. So, we've seen a number of cases like that. But yeah, freedom of expression, the right to express yourself to and to access information goes along with free speech. It works two ways. The government is really not supposed to impose restrictions on

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