, Columnist
Free Speech Has Never Been Easier, or More at Risk
The digital revolution has upended so many things that even free speech — and how we define it, enforce it and build our laws around it — is under threat.
Free speech and democracy are very closely connected.
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I’ll take a leap and say that speech has probably never been freer in the world than it is today. Multiple venues, especially social media, allow people’s perspectives to take flight fluently, globally and frequently. Pick your format — print, audio, video, images — and you can easily put ideas in front of an audience. Huge audiences, potentially.