Free speech is held as a ward against tyrrany. This has been the central thesis in free speech advocacy for centuries.
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When we look at regimes that have crumbled, many have done so under the power of speech even though that speech was not protected.
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In Prague, a city near to me heart, an oppressive state was overthrown by unfree speech. Romania, too. And countless more.
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Free speech didn't prevent tyranny from taking hold in dozens of other regimes, too.
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So perhaps the power of the ward is not in the protection of the speech but the speech itself.
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So maybe we should be less focused on the pedantry of what's protected and be more focused on what arises instead.
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The people will speak, and maybe we should listen more to what they say than how it's formatted.
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Because for 10 days in Prague, the people spoke. They didn't have a form to fill out, a nice little lectern. They spoke anyways.
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