The Death of Free Speech in Sweden

by Bruce Bawer
Front Page Magazine
March 22, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/2365/the-death-of-free-speech-in-sweden

Excerpt:

Earlier this month, under the headline "Words are not innocent," the Swedish newspaper Dagbladet ran an opinion piece by its cultural editor, Kaj Schueler, which was, essentially, an attack on Sweden's newly minted Free Press Society. It was one of several such attacks directed at the organization in recent weeks by members of Sweden's mainstream media, all of which made essentially the same arguments as Schueler – who, early in his article, summed up his position as follows: "According to the Free Press Society, we no longer have real freedom of speech in Sweden. They are wrong – we have it. But since words are not innocent, there are limits to free speech."

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