Quite a messy episode. Freedom of speech is messy. Even so, I hope to convince you of the truth of what Voltaire stood for.
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Voltaire's Treatise on Tolerance:
https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/voltaire1763.pdf
Life and times of Voltaire:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voltaire/
Voltaire's Candide:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19942/19942-h/19942-h.htm
Hong Kong autonomy:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/China-retreats-from-50-year-pledge-of-Hong-Kong-autonomy2
Mao ZeDong's sparrow drive:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306422018800259
Whorf hypothesis:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/sapir-whorf-hypothesis
George Orwell's 1984:
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt
Music credits:
Waltz (Tschikovsky Op. 40) by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4605-waltz-tschikovsky-op-40-
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Pride by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4239-pride
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Leaving Home by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4708-leaving-home
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