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Examining a Common Argument Against Censorship
One of the common arguments against censorship runs something
like this: democracy means individual freedom with minimal
interference from others. Such interference can only be
justified when individual expressions of freedom demonstrably
harm others. This argument commonly appeals to
But this is not the only definition of democracy. Indeed, many argue that this definition of democracy--roughly, a libertarian/anarchic definition--is a weak concept of democracy: it is weak because
These deficits are overcome by more powerful conceptions of freedom and democracy at work in a tradition of argument that runs from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson to the contemporary philosopher Juergen Habermas.
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