Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech

by Jonathan Turley
Washington Post
October 13, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/3392/shut-up-and-play-nice-how-the-western-world-is

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Free speech is dying in the Western world. While most people still enjoy considerable freedom of expression, this right, once a near-absolute, has become less defined and less dependable for those espousing controversial social, political or religious views. The decline of free speech has come not from any single blow but rather from thousands of paper cuts of well-intentioned exceptions designed to maintain social harmony.

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