How Do You Define Hate Speech?
22 November 2017
Emily Ekins, Research Fellow and Director of Polling at the Cato Institute, discusses Cato’s 2017 Free Speech & Tolerance Survey and how an overwhelming majority of Americans agree it would be hard to ban hate speech because people can’t agree what speech is hateful.
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