The logic of the ‘slippery slope’ is the technical tool that the freedom of speech crisis myth deploys to either end the argument or divert attention away from the inconvenient distinctions and nuances that conflate freedom of speech and right to platform with freedom from consequence. It goes something like this: if you enable censorship or the silencing of views you do not like that exposes the views you do like to censorship as well. You will be next. University of Amsterdam academic Magdalena Jozwiak summarises the slippery slope argument as: ‘Today this speech restriction, tomorrow the
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