Selma Carvalho:
When we chip away at free speech, we undermine the very fundamentals of
democracy.
Response:
1. Freedom of speech or expression is not absolute in any democracy or civil
society. It is tempered with a sense of responsibility.
2. Freedom to dissent is as important as freedom of
Frederick Noronha wrote:
But do the Bollywoods of the world deserve applause when they go about
repeatedly and unrepentently painting The Other in crude stereotypes? If we
treat them with Free Speech arguments, then why not also respect the right
people have to indulge in blatant communal speech,
Just this morning I was reading a review of Prof. Stanley Fish's new
book, How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One, and that suddenly
reminded me of his book, There's No Such Thing As Free Speech, and
it's a Good Thing, Too. The title of the book, if I remember
correctly, is taken from an
