Ira Glasser is a former director of the American Civil Liberties Union and a lifelong defender of every citizen's right to free speech. He is the subject of the 2020 documentary "Mighty Ira", available now on streaming video.
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You've always been a staunch advocate for free speech even when that speech is hate speech.
And that's a very... it's a difficult argument for people to have in this day and age because people want to ban hate speech.
They want to ban people from talking.
You've always been an advocate for free speech and saying that like even though it seems like it's a good idea to ban these ideas or to ban people discussing these things.
In fact it actually turns out to be a terrible idea.
Well, you see when people say they want to ban hate speech, what they mean is they want to ban the speech that they hate.
Yes.
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