Alexis Ohanian Quotes

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.

Free speech should never mean hate speech.

We have ways to protect the public when free speech crosses over in hate speech.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'

We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.

I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture, but there's a limit to how far we can take that.

What makes Reddit special is that people feel free to express themselves. Where we want to draw the line is where that feeling of being able to express oneself freely starts to infringe on someone feeling like they can express themselves.

Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech.

Conservatives should defend free speech - but we must not amplify it when it's blatantly grotesque.

I hope that people who might speak out respectfully and out of concern would not get mobbed or bullied for their differing views.

There is no right to not be offended, nor should there be.

My view is, let's not shut down anyone's right to speak, let's meet their comments with more speech.

Rather than shutting down free speech, we need to broaden it, to make it possible for young people to say even the things we dislike so we can talk them down. And we need politicians to articulate a picture of the future that includes all of us. Not British values but shared human values.

Personally, I think people need to get over this 'being offended' thing. Being offended does not give you the right to silence people. I get offended by things all the time - it's just part of life. The right not to be offended is not a human right, especially in a democracy.

We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.