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2008-10-23 , 20:39
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Originally Posted by ioan View Post
Yeah, too bad.
The "freedom of speech" nowadays is something like: "everybody should be allowed to say ONLY what I like to hear".
Isn't that how the European Commission re-defined free speech last week?

Anyway, I like the old saying, wrongly attributed to Sartre: "Free speech is not here for the stuff I agree with, but for the things I utterly despise." (It doesn't go like this, but I like my paraphrasing better)
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