Professor of Law Emiritus, Harvard, Alan Dershowitz has launched a new book on free speech, titled The Case Against the New Censorship: Protecting Free Speech From Big Tech, Progressives, and Universities.
He says:
“What Donald Trump tweets—I may disagree with every single word he says—but he has the right to say it. And more importantly, people forget the First Amendment has two aspects, one, the right of the speaker—Donald Trump to speak—that’s one part of it,” Dershowitz said.
“But the second part, which is largely ignored, is the right of you and me the public to hear and read and see what he has to say to accept it or reject it in the marketplace of ideas,” he added. “When you ban a speaker, you also ban his viewers and listeners from having access to that speech, and that’s an equally dangerous aspect of violating free speech rights.”
To suppress both is to suppress thought and thus freedom of conscience and individual human personality- 'to be.'