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Speech Bubbles

Bad arguments about speech, made better

"Hate speech is not free speech" isn't the point you probably want to make.

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Parker Molloy
May 23, 2022
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Happy Monday, everyone. I’m here to write a little bit about free speech today. As this is a topic that comes up a lot, I even created a new section for it, called Speech Bubbles. This changes absolutely nothing on your end, but it helps me organize my own thoughts a little better.

Last week, I saw a tweet with an irritatingly-familiar refrain: “Hate spe…

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