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"Threats to Free Speech in US"

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Iona’s answers to the most common arguments against freedom of speech

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Iona Italia : Free speech is our chosen method of resolving disagreements, using words rather than weapons.

Free speech was created under the false notion that words and violence are distinct, but we now know that certain speech is more akin to violence.

Acceptance of freedom of speech is a way to live with genuine conflict among points of view.

The only model that asks nothing of its citizens in terms of learning, autonomy and decision-making is the authoritarian one.

The powerful do well under virtually any system of government. They’re not the ones who need freedom of speech. Its purpose is precisely to protect minority opinions and those unpopular with powerful people.

The phrase is a misquotation of an analogy made in a 1919 Supreme Court opinion that upheld the imprisonment of three people who argued that military conscription was wrong.

John Stuart Mill’s central arguments in On Liberty remain undefeated, including one of his strongest arguments in favour of freedom of speech, of which I have never heard a persuasive refutation.

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