Ranking the arguments for free speech
Why are some of the most popular arguments for free speech so terrible?
Contemporary debates around free speech have become so cynical and imbecilic that one can plausibly point to them as an argument against it: this is what people want to defend? And one of the major reasons for this, I think, is that we rarely distinguish between the different arguments for free speech, much less acknowledge that some of them are stronge…
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