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PHI 215 Central Piedmont Community College Free Speech & Democracy Discussion

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John Stuart Mill argues in On Liberty that free speech is a necessary condition for any democracy. In other words, without free speech a democracy does not exist. Is he correct? What is/are the implications of his argument for assessing democracies today?