Maybe Free Speech is the important fight in and of itself. Citizenry as a whole - and not just fragments of it - will be marginalized if corporations, big tech, politicians and academics are simply allowed to frame speech into tidy little corridors of “acceptable” and “unacceptable”, “offensive” and “tolerant” - thereby promoting and reflecting a single narrative. Anyone stifling decent and opposing viewpoints is invariably doing so to avoid having to engage in debate and not, as they claim, to prevent the spread of “harmful disinformation”. If you have a winning argument, it will survive scrutiny regardless of how much ‘opposing information’ is thrown at it. The problem is, true debate takes time and patience and runs the risk of narratives being exposed as lies - and dishonest people will shy away from this process. As Augustine of Hippo has stated, “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself”
Silence NO speech, whether individual or collective. Cancel cancel culture! It is weakness manifest as bullying.
Maybe Free Speech is the important fight in and of itself. Citizenry as a whole - and not just fragments of it - will be marginalized if corporations, big tech, politicians and academics are simply allowed to frame speech into tidy little corridors of “acceptable” and “unacceptable”, “offensive” and “tolerant” - thereby promoting and reflecting a single narrative. Anyone stifling decent and opposing viewpoints is invariably doing so to avoid having to engage in debate and not, as they claim, to prevent the spread of “harmful disinformation”. If you have a winning argument, it will survive scrutiny regardless of how much ‘opposing information’ is thrown at it. The problem is, true debate takes time and patience and runs the risk of narratives being exposed as lies - and dishonest people will shy away from this process. As Augustine of Hippo has stated, “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself”
Silence NO speech, whether individual or collective. Cancel cancel culture! It is weakness manifest as bullying.