The digital world has made it all too easy for repellent and unedited use of language to offend many people. But regulating at the expense of important rights to express even the most challenging ideas is not necessarily the way forward.
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In an important article in the October issue of The Atlantic titled The New Puritans, Anne Applebaum takes eloquent aim at a growing illiberalism that.