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U.S. President Donald Trump vowed in his second inaugural address to “immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.”

No principle has been as fundamental to the American experiment as freedom of speech.

The willingness to tolerate subversive and offensive discourse, essentially without limits, has long distinguished the United States from other democracies, including Canada, which regulate certain kinds of speech.

In America, free speech and the clash of ideas that it promotes have been seen as fostering social progress, resulting in a society that is more innovative than ones in which open expression is suppressed. Free speech is also held up as rampart against the political violence that erupts in societies where speech is restricted.

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