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Five Bad Arguments to Restrict Speech

Accepted submission by canopic jug at 2017-08-11 05:41:29
Digital Liberty

A basic right in the U.S.A. has been the Freedom of Speech, yet of late it has been under heavy threat. Peter Van Buren at We Meant Well blogs about Five Bad Arguments to Restrict Speech [wemeantwell.com].

"Open discussion, debate, and argument are the core of democracy. Bad ideas are defeated by good ideas. Fascism seeks to close off all ideas except its own."


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