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This is more perfect. I'm Chad Abumrod. Today a little bit of a departure. Maybe it's more of an addendum.

So we just released an episode about Citizens United, which is one of the most argued about cases in recent history.

And this was a case really about the First Amendment and whether we should limit the First Amendment in any way.

Now in that case, you had this tension. You had Justice Kennedy who was saying, don't touch it, don't touch it, don't touch it.

I don't care if all this money comes into our political system. Don't touch the First Amendment.

But you had Justice Souter saying, I don't know, maybe we should touch it because sometimes your freedom impinges on my equality.

And shouldn't those two things be in balance?

It's a fascinating and important conversation. And it was one that we were having internally at the team while we were making that episode.

And at a certain point we decided, let's actually take that conversation and make a live event around it.

This is something that we did a few times in the run-up to season two. We would have these public debates in the WNYC green space.

And I want to play you some excerpts from that debate that we had about free speech.

And we did a sort of classic debate format. One person took one side, one person took another.

And our questions were, should the government do more in this day and age to limit free speech? Should Twitter do more? Should Facebook do more?

Should all of us collectively be doing more to stop dangerous hateful speech?

Or is this precisely the moment when we have to stand up louder and prouder and protect that speech, even if we hate it?

So before we got into it, I took a poll of the audience.

Everybody who thinks that your right to free speech, especially online, okay, people say some bad things fine.

But your right to free speech should remain pretty much unlimited. Those of you who feel that way, make some noise.

Alright, you guys are thunders over here. Let's just do one one more time.

So I can just get a sort of more accurate. Those of you who don't think should be limited, go.

Okay, now those of you on the flip side, those of you who think there should be some clear, hard limits.

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