Opinion | Have Trump’s Lies Wrecked Free Speech? (Published 2021)
A debate has broken out over whether the once-sacrosanct constitutional protection of the First Amendment has become a threat to democracy.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-lies-free-speech.html
Free speech theorists have lots to be anxious about these days as we grapple with abiding faith in the many virtues of free expression while coping with the undeniable reality that it can — irony runs deep — undermine free expression itself.