Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. (Glenn Greenwald)

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

Glenn Greenwald

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