Chomsky on Free Speech

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Mar 30 15:30:22 PST 2001


Chuck0 says:


>You can't get rid of dumb ideas by banning them.

I don't think you can either, but you can control how, when, where, & with what degrees of license dumb ideas get expressed. E.g., laws regulating campaign finance, laws regulating advertising, laws against sexual harassment, and so on. Beyond legal control, people control one another's expressions all the time by informal means.

Yoshie



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