Is Free Speech Always Good?

Ideas We Hear Shape Who We Are

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I have long been a strong supporter of the right to an almost unmitigated freedom of speech, but recently I’ve been reconsidering that stance. In American culture in particular, it is a nearly unquestionable sacred belief that the right to free speech is good and should never be circumscribed in any way. Any limits at all on free speech are immediately derided as a…