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Ranking the arguments for free speech
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Ranking the arguments for free speech

Why are some of the most popular arguments for free speech so terrible?

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Carl Beijer
Dec 19, 2022
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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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