Why free speech is so controversial

Free speech, freedom of expression — whatever it is that you want to call it! — is a hot topic at present. Media companies are banning far-right thinkers, and the tensions riled up by the subject are ever-present. Here’s a look into what makes it such a polarising topic.

Dave Olsen
4 min readDec 7, 2018

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Dave Olsen
Dialogue & Discourse

Political and policy analysis | Operations Director, politika.org.uk | Student, University of Oxford | twitter.com/dave_olsen16