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    Mill's harm principle already permits restricting liberty... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Censorship, even of false belief, harms both those whose speech is suppressed and their audience.

    Mill's harm principle already permits restricting liberty when it damages others, so censorship of genuinely harmful speech is internally consistent with the Millian framework, not a departure from it.

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    Censorship(as the main subject of the statement)
    When someone in power prevents people from seeing, hearing, or sharing certain information or ideas.
    Internally consistent(as a requirement the framework meets)
    Free from contradictions within itself; the different parts don't contradict each other.
    Mill(as the subject being discussed)
    John Stuart Mill was a 19th-century British philosopher who wrote influential ideas about liberty, happiness, and what makes a good life.
    Millian framework(as the philosophical system being referenced)
    The set of ideas and rules that come from Mill's philosophy, used as a system for thinking about what restrictions on freedom are justified.
    harm principle(Associated with Mill; its necessity as a basis for liberty restrictions is questioned)

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    The principle that restrictions on individual liberty are justified only when necessary to prevent harm to others
    liberty(The operative definition of liberty used in evaluating the freedom objection to taxation for welfare)
    The absence of intentional coercion

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