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Eleanor Holmes Norton: It is technically impossible to write an anti-speech code that cannot be twisted against speech nobody means to bar. It…

On the recordOctober 25, 2017
It is technically impossible to write an anti-speech code that cannot be twisted against speech nobody means to bar. It has been tried and tried and tried.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Norton emphasizes the challenges of creating effective anti-speech codes.

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