How a 2006 debate explains anti-speech activism in 2017

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Over the weekend I watched a 2006 debate on free speech and the right to offend, entitled “freedom of speech must include the license to offend.”

Coming one year after riots that followed a Danish magazine’s publication of a Prophet Mohammed cartoon, the debate represented a high point of the anti-free speech movement.

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