When you said ‘inflaming the passions of the feeble-minded’ I thought, isn’t that what politicians do? Isn’t that their like their whole deal? They’re the ones that we should beworried about.When they’re the arbiters of what can be said and they’re picking and choosing what people can hear that makes it less likely for the truth to get out.Of course when you have any monopolist on speech you’re going to get things tilted in favor of things that serve the interest of that arbiter of truth and you get further away from the truth.Free Speech doesn’t guarantee that the best ideas will win, but at least it ensures that they can get out there so that they have a chance of prevailing and you don’t have that if the government is picking and choosing what people can hear.– Jacob Huebert, author of Libertarianism Today
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