Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $79,774
98%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 98%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: violentspeech

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • New Yorker: Maybe We Should Reconsider Free Speech In The Digital Age

    06/25/2018 6:12:52 PM PDT · by DeweyCA · 24 replies
    Hotair.com ^ | 6-25-18 | John Sexton
    The New Yorker published a story today titled, “How Social-Media Trolls Turned U.C. Berkeley Into a Free-Speech Circus.” Most of the content is about the battles over free-speech at Berkeley last year, starting with Milo Yiannopolis. Author Andrew Marantz asks law professor Erwin Chemerinsky about the limits of speech and gets an answer he apparently doesn’t like: Voltaire, anti-Semite and sage of the Enlightenment, is credited with the aphorism “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Chemerinsky, arguably the foremost First Amendment scholar in the country, believes, in the...