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>What has the US gained over these countries from that free speech, exactly? I think it's non-trivial to try to quantify the effects of free speech. Freeform opinions off the top of my head: the definitions of 'hate speech' are too fluid, allowing argument opposition to massage the definition until your protest against them is considered to be hateful -- which then allows legal options to silence the opinion. The Uni…
>What are the damages of hate speech? Can you realistically consider damages from a violent individual to have been caused by hate speech -- or is that a good scapegoat for a mentally disturbed individual to kill people with? Not only the actions of the individual (we must remember concepts such as stochastic terrorism) due to hearing hate speech, but also the harm of the speech itself. There's substantial work done…
Re: The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
#71Thanks for those links. Much as I disagree if your summary is correct, I'll definitely give them read, they look interesting.