BBC Radio 4: Robust defence of free speech by Oxford Chancellor

[@AlyssaAleksanian]

Love this. The only way to build resilience in a society is to engage with ideas, not suppress them

[@dumbhead3230]

To deny freedom of speech and freedom of inquiry at university would "a treason"to sort of values which university should represent in which thank heavens.

[@diisegreti4299]

This guy panders around to the hosts hostility. Why is it so hard to just stand on facts. So this guy is white. He also said he was the first in his family to succeed. If it was because he was white how come his father didn't go to university? The problem is in the entertainment industries e.g. movies, tv, news, radio and music industries. Because the masses all absorb the same damned message that are controlled by a very small number of people who ultimately control what messages are put out, it becomes a popularity contest to be hive mind. Iron-Man said this and the best of us saw it opening night so while talking about it at the watering corner at work those that didn't see it want to hear about. 'That Iron-Man line was awesome wasn't it, ' says douche 1. To which douche 2 replies, 'Best line of everything everywhere in existence." Now douche 3 is everyone else who can't wait to go see the greatest of greatest line in the most spectacular film ever want to join the discussion. So later that day someone says to them 'Did you see that bitchin flick?' Douche 3 not having seen it but wanting to be part of the hive says, 'And im only repeating that awesome line douche 1 & 2 said and look how giddy you are.' He's now in with the hive and that's all that matters. Nevermind the fact douche 1 & 2 never saw the movie only a trailer because truth, morals, criticism, individualism, original thought or a spine aren't needed today. All that matters is not upsetting the hive.