tommyguns2
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Hard to believe that the attitude toward free speech is under such significant attack by those in power within today's most powerful academic and media institutions.
https://www.city-journal.org/gatekeepers-free-speech
A few money quotes:
It is a “mistake to think of free speech as an effective means to accomplish a more just society,” Georgetown law professor Michael Seidman said in 2018.
Because the United States suffers from too much free speech exercised by too many people, Emily Bazelon of the Yale Law School wrote in the New York Times, our beleaguered democracy is “drowning in lies.”
The goal, according to the New Yorker’s Masha Gessen, is to establish and maintain “the sphere of legitimate controversy.”
https://www.city-journal.org/gatekeepers-free-speech
A few money quotes:
It is a “mistake to think of free speech as an effective means to accomplish a more just society,” Georgetown law professor Michael Seidman said in 2018.
Because the United States suffers from too much free speech exercised by too many people, Emily Bazelon of the Yale Law School wrote in the New York Times, our beleaguered democracy is “drowning in lies.”
The goal, according to the New Yorker’s Masha Gessen, is to establish and maintain “the sphere of legitimate controversy.”