The Free Speech Lecture

[Originally recorded and posted on YT in January 2021] Full-length presentation defending the bedrock principle of freedom of speech in any liberal governing order.

Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
3:31 - The Free Speech Movement at UC-Berkeley
4:36 - Definition of Free Speech
7:34 - Speech and Democracy in Athens and Rome
10:18 - The Gutenberg Printing Press
13:33 - John Milton
18:20 - The Enlightenment
22:05 - The American and French Revolutions
24:50 - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
26:24 - Alexander Meiklejohn and Thomas I. Emerson
28:18 - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
37:58 - George Orwell, Animal Farm
40:20 - Seditious Speech
48:04 - Bigoted Speech
1:11:06 - The Need for Open Debate
1:16:28 - Censorship of Speech and Internet Freedoms in China
1:17:25 - Conclusion
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