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E is for expurgator

Why free speech must come first

8 February 2025

9:00 AM

8 February 2025

9:00 AM

Remember this if you remember nothing else about the philosophical battle for free speech. More scope for speaking one’s mind helps the outsiders in society – those outside the so-called Overton window’s allowed ambit of ‘acceptable speech’; the sceptics, apostates, iconoclasts, nonconformists and dissidents; basically those who differ from received opinion beyond what the powerful deem prudent.

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