What’s the biggest threat to free speech — censorship or contempt?

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The Dignity Index held its first leadership summit in Salt Lake City.

Co-founder Tim Shriver said contempt is the greatest threat to free speech.

Surveys find 6 out of 10 Americans feel afraid to share political opinions.

Hundreds gathered in Salt Lake City following a weekend of protests to amplify a different kind of national movement, one seeking to combat contempt by recognizing human dignity in political discourse.

The Dignity Index held its first leadership summit on Monday with the goal of organizing against trends that have recently made Utah , members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and others the target of brutality.

“We’re not at risk of devolving into violence — we are in a state of violence,” Dignity Index co-creator Tim Shriver told