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The Perilous Price of Unbounded Free Speech

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Ken Taub
Dec 28, 2023
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PREFACE for my regular readers and newer visitors: 

On Friday, December 22, the NY Times published an article about Substack with this header:  Substack Says It Will Not Ban Nazis or Extremist Speech.  This was the article’s first paragraph:

“Under pressure from critics who say Substack is profiting from newsletters that promote hate speech and racism, …

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