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5 Clichés Used to Attack Free Speech (New @ Reason)

Five terrible, perpetually recurring arguments, debunked.

Todd Krainin | 6.16.2017 10:47 AM

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Nick Gillespie has some sharp insights on how to fight back against the would-be censors by shredding the most-popular clichés used by people trying to make the rest of us shut the hell up.

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Todd Krainin was a producer at Reason.

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