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Brendan, welcome to Trigonometry.

Thank you very much.

Well, it's great to have you here.

You are known in addition to all your writing of course particularly for the free speech

issue that you focused on so much people call your free speech absolutist yeah

are you a free speech absolutist yes what does that mean exactly it means

that I think freedom of speech is absolute and there should be no restrictions on it whatsoever.

No hate speech laws, I want to scrap all of those, no public order legislation that targets speech.

No libel laws, I think there should be order legislation that targets speech.

No libel laws, I think there should be no restrictions whatsoever.

And the best response to speech that is wrong or dangerous or racist or horrible is always more speech, never censorship, never laws, never putting someone

in prison.

So I'm a free speech absolutist because I think freedom of speech should be completely

unfettered and let loose on the world. So you think for instance it should be

acceptable for somebody for instance an ear mom Imam to be able to go up on a street corner, stand on

a palette and say homosexuals should be murdered for instance for their...

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