There's no such thing as free speech,and that's a good thing too by Stanley Fish [PDF]
Free speech, Fish argues in this essay, is what is left over when a community has determined in advance what it does not want to hear. The boundaries of tolerance are always being redrawn in the process of political struggle--and he finds good reason to put "hate speech" beyond the pale.
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