Excerpted from University of Toronto debate “Freedom of Speech includes the Freedom to Hate” held November 2006.
“To whom do you award the right to decide which speech is harmful or who is the harmful speaker? Or determine in advance what are the harmful consequences going to be, that we know enough about in advance to prevent? To whom would you give this job? To whom are you going to award the job of being the censor?”
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