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To free speech absolutists, it comes down to a simple choice: you are either for free speech or you are not. But what about other forms of censorship or consequences for expressing offensive ideas?
As Chomsky once stated in a C-SPAN interview, “I’m personally very skeptical of any form of regulation of any kind of speech.”
In America’s raging culture wars, however, it is increasingly difficult to embrace free speech absolutism. Congressional pressure is mounting on social media platforms to police offensive content and deplatform individuals who break the platforms’ rules against disinformation.
Cancel culture-obsessed online mobs call out people for saying the wrong thing. And businesses and institutions, always fearful of negative publicity, are ready to fire or disassociate themselves from anyone who violates the new cultural orthodoxies, however arbitrarily imposed.
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