Debates about hate speech laws, online safety legislation and campus censorship have recently created fundamental questions about who gets to define acceptable discourse in a democratic society. As these contests shift from campus culture wars to courtrooms, we debate whether today’s primary source of censorship is the political right.

For The Ayes

Christopher Lorder
Christopher Lorde is a third-year undergraduate at Christ’s COllege, reading Human, Social, and Political Sciences and specialising in Sociology. He is also the outgoing President of the Cambridge Union, and both he and his Director of Studies look forward to his eventual reunion with his degree work. You may also know him from…just about every other society in Cambridge.

Dr Steven Thrasher
Dr Steven Thrasher holds the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair of Social Justic in Reporting at Northwestern University. Thrasher’s cultural writing has been widely published by the Guardian, New York Times, Esquire, Village Voice, Literary Hub, Nation, Rolling Stone and New York magazine and has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Polish and Spanish.

Student Speaker
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For The Noes

TBA
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TBA
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Student Speaker
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Details for auditions can be found of page 4 of the Termcard or on our social media profiles.