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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 4164145" data-attributes="member: 44954"><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-8chan-free-speech-20190806-rmi6moex45ehxgf35477m6b55e-story.html" target="_blank">Commentary: 8chan is vile, but the need to protect free speech is clear</a>For better or worse, the web has become our primary forum for written communication.It follows that if there is nowhere on the web to express certain ideas, then those ideas — bad ones, to be sure — won’t be expressed in writing at all. That in turn would lead to a narrowing of the ideas available to all humans. The core idea of the freedom of speech has always been that we allow the expression of certain ideas that we condemn and believe to be morally wrong and even dangerous — because their expression ultimately fuels the search for truth. Refuting bad ideas is part of shaping new ones, as the philosopher John Stuart Mill famously argued.And maybe, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes suggested, we might even consider it a good idea to question our own most profoundly held moral certainties. It’s particularly hard to do that when we are faced with true evil. But really, that’s the time the protection of free expression most counts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DriveInDriѵeOut, post: 4164145, member: 44954"] [URL="https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-8chan-free-speech-20190806-rmi6moex45ehxgf35477m6b55e-story.html"]Commentary: 8chan is vile, but the need to protect free speech is clear[/URL] For better or worse, the web has become our primary forum for written communication. It follows that if there is nowhere on the web to express certain ideas, then those ideas — bad ones, to be sure — won’t be expressed in writing at all. That in turn would lead to a narrowing of the ideas available to all humans. The core idea of the freedom of speech has always been that we allow the expression of certain ideas that we condemn and believe to be morally wrong and even dangerous — because their expression ultimately fuels the search for truth. Refuting bad ideas is part of shaping new ones, as the philosopher John Stuart Mill famously argued. And maybe, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes suggested, we might even consider it a good idea to question our own most profoundly held moral certainties. It’s particularly hard to do that when we are faced with true evil. But really, that’s the time the protection of free expression most counts. [/QUOTE]

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