It's too late for the "Marketplace of Ideas"
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. of the Supreme Court used a metaphor that has dominated how we think about free speech for the past little over a century. In Abrams v. United States, Holmes wrote in dissent:
Men may come to think this when they realize that time has disrupted many competing faiths. believe free exchange of ideas is the greatest way to achieve the ultimate benefit wanted and that the ability of a notion to prevail in market competition is the best indicator of its veracity.
John Stuart Mill wrote in his book On Liberty that the "marketplace of ideas," a bustling public space, would fulfill his promise of "the clearer perception and livelier impression of
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