normblog Lying as speech: "When David Irving was sentenced to a prison term for Holocaust denial I stated the view that he shouldn't have been. I stated it without much argument, appealing simply to standard free speech principles. Here I want to defend that view by considering the two main ways of challenging it I've come across in the discussion that has been going on since Irving was jailed.

These are, in short: (a) to question whether free speech protections should be invoked to apply to blatant falsification of historical evidence; and (b) to suggest that Holocaust denial amounts to incitement, threatening both democracy and lives."

Norm works on demolishing both of them. Since hate speech laws aren't going away, his demolishing isn't complete; but it's a mighty effort.