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Dr. Mansa is a caring human being, and this is not focused on him other than as the example because he's brought it up.
The twitter/internet discussion of 'free speech' is disconnected from the ideas that produced it, until it's become a 2d cutout of itself. 1/ https://twitter.com/rasmansa/status/1344369220033908737
The twitter/internet discussion of 'free speech' is disconnected from the ideas that produced it, until it's become a 2d cutout of itself. 1/ https://twitter.com/rasmansa/status/1344369220033908737
The foundations of free speech are not encapsulated by the 1st Amendment. The 1st does - as people point out - only control what the *government* can do about speech, but it's a guarantee, and the guarantee was made for a reason. 2/
The missing conversation is a few centuries of discussion. The best all-around expression of these ideas, still relevant, is Mill's "On Liberty". Chapter 2 covers it; but if you're not into reading archaic language and philosophy, it's no fun.
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Here's the PDF:
https://eet.pixel-online.org/files/etranslation/original/Mill,%20On%20Liberty.pdf
Then there's a great explainer from @JonHaidt's Heterodox Academy:
https://heterodoxacademy.org/library/all-minus-one/
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https://eet.pixel-online.org/files/etranslation/original/Mill,%20On%20Liberty.pdf
Then there's a great explainer from @JonHaidt's Heterodox Academy:
https://heterodoxacademy.org/library/all-minus-one/
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One can also derive some moderation of this position from Popper's "The Open Society and It's Enemies". It's not available as far as I can tell unless you purchase it, but here's a summary:
https://iep.utm.edu/popp-pol/
https://iep.utm.edu/popp-pol/
It's not my goal to silence anyone, or to "pick a side" here; but instead, to enrich the conversation with the arguments that founded our social idea of "Free Speech" that seem to have been lost in translation.
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