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In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything else his own.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the Freeness of

Speech.

Freedom of speech was once one of the West's most cherished rights,

but in the modern day governments are attempting to strip us of this right.

In almost all Western nations, legislation is being introduced

to thwart our ability to speak freely.

Politicians and bureaucrats justify this anti-free speech stance in the name of the greater good.

They claim that with more control over what people say, fewer people will be led astray

by misinformation and disinformation, and fewer people will be harmed by the criticism and insults of hate speech.

In this video, we make the case that censoring and criminalizing the expression of misinformation,

disinformation, and hate speech is an existential threat to a free and prosperous society.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong, wrote the American philosopher Frederick Douglass.

It violates the right of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

It is just as criminal to rob a man of his right to speak and hear as it would be to rob him of his money.

In the West, there have long been limits on what can and cannot be said.

Property rights create one such limit.

A property owner can assert the authority of my house, my rules, and expel any individual from his or her premises who says something the property owner wishes not to hear.

The principles of common law, which are foundational

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