The core Enlightenment principle supporting free speech is that the best counter to a bad idea is a good idea, with both openly expressible and debatable. This stabilizes society by making everyone think and engage. To censor is to divide and polarize.
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Operating as devil's advocate in good faith or in pursuit of testing ideas is one thing. But there is a distinction to be made between thinkers like Jefferson/Franklin doing such a thing and far right grifters whose trolling is in bad faith and routinely turns to harassment.
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Ghost Busters, "Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God given right!"
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