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Free Speech in Broadcasting

Roosevelt Institute has displayed an editorial on its site discussing the censoring of Jimmy Kimmel, what has been leading to this, and why it is dangerous. A bit of background on what has taken place. As NPR writes, since his appointment by Pres. Tr_mp as “chair of the Federal Communications Commission; Brendan Carr has waged […]

Setting a Limit: Free Speech vs Eliminationism

There have been a number of ad-hoc limits proposed to Free Speech Absolutism in the past. For example “You can’t yell ‘Fire’ in a crowded theater” or “Your free speech rights end where your waving arms and fists intersect my nose” and those get us into the right arena. But I want to propose a […]