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    Challenges→Censorship, even of false belief, harms both those whose speech is suppressed and their audience.

    If sustained exposure to sophisticated disinformation degrades the very cognitive capacities needed for Millian deliberation, permitting such speech is self-undermining and cannot be justified by appeal to the deliberative process it destroys.

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    Key Terms

    Appeal to(as used in argumentation)
    To use something as evidence or reasoning to support your point.
    Cognitive capacities(philosophy of mind and epistemology)
    Your mental abilities to think, learn, understand, and process information.
    Disinformation(as used in epistemology and political philosophy)
    False or misleading information that is deliberately spread to deceive people, rather than honest mistakes or accidental errors.
    John Stuart Mill(one side of the debate)
    An influential 19th-century British philosopher who argued that scientific knowledge comes from careful observation and gathering evidence from the world.
    Millian deliberation(as used in political philosophy and philosophy of free speech)

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    A way of making decisions or forming beliefs through open discussion and debate, named after philosopher John Stuart Mill, who argued this kind of free exchange of ideas helps us find truth.
    Self-undermining(in logic and argument)
    When an idea or rule contradicts itself or destroys the very thing it's trying to achieve.

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