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Harvey Silverglate

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  1. “The internet has posed a particular challenge to free speech absolutists because of some of the stuff that's on there is god-awful. But I have no different rule for freedom of speech on the Internet than I have in newspapers or in lectures or in classrooms or conversations among people.”

    2023-05-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “No, I don't. I think that we have developed a culture in which it's understood that if you don't like what you hear, you talk back. You write something. We don't punch each other. We insult each other. Is insulting great? Well, I don't know. It's okay. I used to, as a kid in Brooklyn, where I was born. I was born and raised in Bensonhurst. We used to say sticks and stones can break by bones, but names can never harm me. And it's absolutely true. What was true when I was five is true when I'm almost eighty one. I've lived a long time, I've seen it all. Talking from experience as well as theory. It's what happens when you reach Eurades.”

    2023-05-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “So I'm thankful that they came in. And this is a great country. It's got troubles right now, but our country doesn't. And we've had, after all, we had a civil war. We had segregation. We had the decimation of the Indians. We're not perfect. But it's the best place in the world for somebody who values liberty.”

    2023-05-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “This worry you living in a free society requires that you expose yourself to some discomfort, you call it pain. It's maybe emotional pain. It's not physical pain. But it's the price we pay for living in a free society. Every so often we're insulted. We're emotionally hurt Think of the alternative. All the alternatives are worse. Nobody ever promised us a rose garden. We're lucky to be in a country that has the First Amendment. It's also the most diverse country in the world because of immigration. My grandparents, my father's side came over from Russia, on my mother's side came over from Poland. I'm very happy that my grandparents came in from Russia. I would not want to be in Russia today. I'd probably be sharing a cell with a Wall Street Journal reporter.”

    2023-05-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “An arrow speed the theory is that ultimately out of speech comes truth that isn't necessarily so, but I do think that when there's free speech better decisions are made because people put their views on the table in a frank, accurate way, and then those views mixed together and clash, and out of that usually comes the better decision not always, but usually more often than not. But if somebody is not allowed to be sit at the table of decision making, then the decision-making process is poorer, less robust, less diverse, and ultimately less successful.”

    2023-05-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Well, in a free society Thoughts start in the brain and then they come out the mouth. So there are different ends of the same spectrum.”

    2023-05-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “The purpose of speech is to express honest views that people have. And so I believe hate speech is as important as love speech, and my view is more important.”

    2023-05-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “It is the most important right that Americans have. It's not a coincidence or an accident that it's named in the First Amendment. The Constitution Without it no democratic society can be democratic for long. And I'm an absolutist. That is, I believe that, for example, people say to me, but what about hate speech? Well, hate speech is much more important than love speech. And the reason is I'm much more interested in knowing whom I should not turn my back on than I am interested in figuring out who loves me or who likes me. So hate speech is the most important, in my view, and yet it's banned, for example, schools. It's unbelievable. Kids are not schooled into understanding the glory of the First Amendment when schools say to them they shouldn't say things that are going to make somebody feel bad.”

    2023-05-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Intolerant in error as I can remember, and I'm going to be 81 May 10th. I was born on Mother's Day 1942. And I can't remember it being this bad. I was born during the McCarthy era.”

    2023-05-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source