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The death of free speech in the West

28 August 2024

9:26 PM

28 August 2024

9:26 PM

Preserving free speech is essential to protect democracy. Indeed, no society can be authentically democratic if only a few privileged individuals are allowed to determine how others must participate in public discourse. Democracy is not an elitist competition between the ruling classes, with the average citizen serving only as a convenient tool to produce government by means of the occasional vote.

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