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We have the option of preventing our doom. It's The Hacker News - Security in a Serious way “Assange (Wikileaks) Condemns Australian Threat To Free Speech: Falsehood Must Be Repudiated Not Punished” “Assange (Wikileaks) Condemns Australian Threat To Free Speech: Falsehood Must Be Repudiated Not Punished” By Dr Gideon Polya 30 October, 2011Countercurrents.org Freedom of speech is crucial for democracy, for unimpaired scholarly research and for rational risk management that keeps society safe. But what about hate speech, racial vilification or speech likely to cause dangerous public disorder? The need for democracy, scholarship and risk management means that freedom of speech must be sacrosanct but there is a place for a formal, transparent, expertly-informed judicial process that would make findings on free speech excesses but the only punishment of, for example, holocaust or genocide deniers would simply be the shame and ignominy of public exposure by such a process. Abuses of freedom of speech can involve lying by commission and lying by omission. "There is an intermediate position to be considered. Dr Gideon Polya currently teaches science students at a major Australian university.

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