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Is Everyone A Hypocrite About Free Speech?

Is Everyone A Hypocrite About Free Speech?

Update: 2025-09-24
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Jimmy Kimmel's brief suspension and, as of yesterday evening, illustrates some of the thornier challenges around the ideal of free speech.

On Today's Show:
Greg Lukianoff, attorney, president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the author of several books on free speech, offers his thoughts on how he says both the political left and right weaponize crackdowns on speech, and why he thinks that is a problem for everyone's rights.

 

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Is Everyone A Hypocrite About Free Speech?

Is Everyone A Hypocrite About Free Speech?

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