OPINION | Hate speech bill: Beware George Orwell's 'Thought Police' and 'Ministry of Love'

As the new hate crimes and hate speech bill closes for comment on Thursday, Daniela Ellerbeck writes that the problem with trying to silence viewpoints that we neither like nor want is that we simultaneously stifle the flow of information and ideas.

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