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Walter Veit
Walter Veit

Jul 22, 2020

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Cancel Culture Just is the Market-Place of Ideas

Guest post by Eric Schliesser

1. Free expression is probably at an all-time high right now, at least in the West. There is a huge variety of different venues for your writing, there’s a whole new world podcast for speeches and an ever-increasing supply of video outlets. The availability of these platforms and publishers doesn’t guarantee you an audience, but that’s not what free expression means.
2. Related to that, some of the technologies that have enabled easy speech have made counter-speech extraordinarily easy as well.
3. There are a lot more…

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