New Hate Speech Laws Threaten Freedom Across the West
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Those fighting censorship in Canada, or Britain, or Ireland, wish they had a First Amendment to fall back on.
One of the first things you learn—or should learn—in Civics 101 is that there is no freedom at all without freedom of expression. Free speech is the essential freedom from which our other rights flow. It’s a right that we have taken for granted in the West.
But a new wave of hate speech laws has changed that. In English-speaking countries with long trad…
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