<story><title>Rowan Atkinson on free speech (2012) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUezfuy8Qpc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karaterobot</author><text>A couple years ago, somebody remarked to me, &amp;quot;oh, you&amp;#x27;re one of those free speech guys, aren&amp;#x27;t you?&amp;quot; and I realized it was meant as an insult. Yes, I guess so! I&amp;#x27;m not sure what changed, but I doubt that would ever have happened a few decades ago. You might have argued about the practical limits of free speech (shouting fire in a theater, Potter Stewart&amp;#x27;s obscenity test, etc.) but you would never hear someone say that free speech itself was less than an unalloyed good to society, if not the foundation for it. You wouldn&amp;#x27;t accuse someone of &amp;quot;being a free speech guy&amp;quot; because everybody was expected to be one. I really hope that&amp;#x27;s not in the process of getting thrown out with the bath water.</text></comment>
<story><title>Rowan Atkinson on free speech (2012) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUezfuy8Qpc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vonzepp</author><text>Sometimes missing in these debates is that right to free speech isn&amp;#x27;t the right to be listened to.</text></comment>