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The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression
Freedom of expression is valuable because human agency and identity emerge in discourse - in the joint activity of creating meaning. Recognition that individual agency and identity emerge in communicative interaction is crucial to understanding not only the value of expression but also its potential for harm. The shift to social media, as the principal platform for public engagement, has added to the ways in which speech can be harmful, while at the same time undermining the effectiveness of traditional legal responses to harmful speech. The principal threat to public discourse may no longer be censorship, and state censorship in particular, but rather the spread of disinformation, within a fragmented public sphere, that undermines agreement on factual matters, and trust in different sources of information or knowledge.