i think the eu approach is too rigid and top down and you know finding people for heaven's sake. if it's the case that there do need to be rules out there and they shouldn't be government rules. so expanding that to a question for jacob. to develop all the rules and norms and institutions like science and mainstream journalism academia law a lot of government that set up all these systems that require us to be on better behavior to expose our views to people who don't don't agree with us to make it very difficult for one faction to take over the expense of others all the things the us constitution does the constitution of knowledge does in the epistemic world, so it is naive to think that without those rules the people rule they don't the opposite is true. Using tools of information warfare and that's why we go to so much trouble. it's all here the ancient greeks medieval times where there were occasional outbursts of very interesting thinking only to be suppressed the enlightenment the long history of seditious libel

it's the only thing like it unbelievably until this book came along there was nothing to read that took you from the very beginning of the ideas of free speech right up to social media. it's not only readable and comprehensive. the first is about the book the second is about what we learned from the book and the third is about the environment wherein right now first thing about the book is is get it by it read it. so quite well, so i thought i'd just say three drinks quickly. it's a fair to say a classic which is what we call books that are ignored for 25 years before anyone responding is because he was getting so much money from chicago that i was really really excel sold and the second edition. Cato because at the time no one i couldn't get a commercial publisher for the book.

Free Speech by Jacob Mchangama