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November 5, 2007

Free Speech Also Means Responding To Hate Speech

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The issue of free speech is taken to absurd lengths when one argues that hate speech must have a platform. That is very different from arguing, as I certainly would, that even the most hateful bigot has a right to his or her views and the right to be free from government restriction on the expression of those views. But that doesn't mean that a public, private, educational or media institution must provide a platform for hate

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The issue of free speech is taken to absurd lengths when one argues that hate speech must have a platform. That is very different from arguing, as I certainly would, that even the most hateful bigot has a right to his or her views and the right to be free from government restriction on the expression of those views. But that doesn't mean that a public, private, educational or media institution must provide a platform for hate

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