Title: Yes, freedom of speech should be absolute - spiked
Headings: Yes, freedom of speech should be absolute
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Content: Which is another way of saying that they see the freedom of other people, their freedom to think and speak for themselves, as a problem, as a source of potential harm. Their putative concern for the welfare of people, then, is really a profound mistrust of people – we’re not deemed capable of handling free speech, and the hustle and sometimes abusive bustle of public life. This is what sets the contemporary pseudo advocacy of free speech, complete with qualifications and caveats, apart from a real belief in free speech of the type that animated the authors of the First Amendment. The Founding Fathers had faith in people’s capacity to act and think for themselves; that is singularly absent today. Tim Black is deputy editor of spiked. spiked is free, and it always will be, which is why we need your help. We don’t have a paywall, or bonus content for paying customers, because we want our arguments for freedom and democracy, against misanthropy and identity politics, to reach as many people as possible. Which is why we ask those of our readers who can afford it to chip in. One-off donations are hugely appreciated, but monthly donations are even better.