CJN DEBATE: Offensive opinions shouldn’t be muzzled

CJN DEBATE: Offensive opinions shouldn’t be muzzled

January 27, 2015 News

It is a truism that distasteful, unpleasant or highly controversial speech is usually the only kind of speech that really needs defending. But in the wake of the deadly Paris terrorist attacks against Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and Jews, and the efforts to test speech limits that followed, it is a truism worth repeating. 

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