Unthinkable: If we focus less on freedom of speech and more on freedom of thought it takes emphasis off making demands on others – via silencing or platforming – and places it instead on knowing ourselves
It suits tech moguls like Elon Musk to rant about 'freedom of speech' while campaigning against the EU Digital Services Act – the very law that is lifting the lid on vested interests behind such speech. Photograph: Michael Gonzalez/Getty
Trinity College Dublin psychologist Simon McCarthy-Jones seeks to redress the balance in a new book Freethinking: Protecting Freedom of Thought Amidst the New Battle of the Mind. “My central belief is that we should demand protection for our thought in all its rich forms,” he writes. “There cannot be a meaningful right to freedom of thought without recognising a corresponding duty to respect other people’s attempts to think, reason and seek the truth,” he says.
Note, he says “for their thinking” not “for their speech”. Distinguishing between the two acts is key. . This is despite, or perhaps because, X had the highest ratio of disinformation posts of all large social media platforms, This can’t be done alone, says McCarthy-Jones. We need “a public workspace for thought” – some kind of environment where no one is cancelled for testing unpopular ideas, but also where the agenda is not set by shouty bots.
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