A world where all opinions and lies are presented to the public as a sort of take it or leave it buffet, is often described as ‘the marketplace of ideas’, a rationalisation for freedom of expression based on comparing ideas to products in a free market economy. The marketplace of ideas model of free speech holds that what is true factually, and what is good morally, will emerge after a competition of ideas in a free, unmoderated and transparent public discourse, a healthy debate where the truth will prevail. Bad ideas and ideologies will lose out and wither away as they are vanquished by
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