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The Bob Cesca Podcast: A Whiter Shade of Palin

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Hecuba's daughter1/14/2021 4:50:23 pm PST

From downstairs:
re: #410 EPR-radar

I’m really starting to question the validity of most of the usual arguments for broad freedom of speech in the US (e.g., good ideas will overcome bad ideas in the marketplace of ideas, etc.).

Of course, the argument that the bad guys would inevitably corrupt the censors remains as valid as ever. But that seems to be the only argument in favor that survives contact with reality.

I’ve always believed that Gresham’s law of economics also applies to speech: bad ideas drive out good, especially given that bad ideas are amplified by the rich and powerful who control sources of information