The 300-year-old doctrine is being tested by the excesses of digital oligarchs, says historian Fara Dabhoiwala
A few weeks ago, as his administration embarked on a purge of the US government that evoked the mass firings and inquisitions of the 1950s, the American vice-president, JD Vance, took time out to explain to Europeans that, in fact, they were the ones who had a problem with ideological diversity. “In Britain and across Europe,” he scolded them, “free speech, I fear, is in retreat.”
Fonte: Financial Times
Autore: Fara Dabhoiwala
Link: The real history of free speech — from supreme ideal to poisonous politics
