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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
5. Regulating Hate Speech
Author : Bhikhu Parekh
Published in: Ethnocentric Political Theory
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on the right to free speech. It argues that it is a mistake to reduce free speech to freedom of expression which puts the individual at the centre of discussion and makes free speech a matter of their more or less unlimited right to express themselves. Free speech is better seen as a vital human good, which is why individuals have a right to it and why that right has certain built-in limits that vary with a society’s history and circumstances. Applying this to hate speech, the chapter shows why it deserves to be limited in the interest of the common good and why the limits are best defined in local terms.