CHRIS ROPER: So stupid, you’d almost think it was parody
When the lure of enrichment is added to the mix, it becomes harder to ignore poisonous modern trolls on social media
05 June 2025 - 05:00
I stumbled upon a spectacularly stupid tweet on South African X, on the same day that I chanced upon What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea, a new book by Fara Dabhoiwala. We might as well get the tweet out of the way first, before we delve into what the concept of free speech has come to mean.
Though I do hate feeding the trolls, sometimes you need a good example of the shoddy sort of nonsense that free speech advocates have chosen to defend. ..
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