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> If you only allowed the speech you didn’t have a problem with, then you wouldn’t need the concept of free speech. Well that's exactly the question: Is free
by StavrosK 6y ago
> If you only allowed the speech you didn’t have a problem with, then you wouldn’t need the concept of free speech.
Well that's exactly the question: Is free speech more societally useful than disallowing the kinds of speech I disagree with?
- CyberRabbi 6y agoYes free speech is useful but not for fascists and their allies. Fascist speech is never okay. The philosophers of the enlightenment didn’t foresee that freedom of speech would be exploited by racists for the purposes of promoting hate in a tolerant society. Freedom of speech is an outdated concept.
- g6587yd 6y agoFreedom of speech is freedom.