When speaking of criminal law and the presumption of innocence, we often say it is better that 99 guilty people go free than for one innocent person to be wrongfully convicted.
To me, this is also true of free speech versus censorship. If the effort to censor "misinformation" casts some factual truths or political viewpoints into the censorship dragnet, that cost is too high.
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Monday August 28 : Handout on Moore v Harper (PDF has been emailed to you); Originalism vs. the "Living Constitution": Strau...
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I. Tinker A student's right to speak (even on controversial subjects such as war) in the cafeteria, the playing field, or "on the...
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"Studying the Constitution has some of the same intellectual delight as reading Aristotle: it opens the mind on a subject of fi...
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