Milo Yiannopoulos On Freedom Of Speech

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Last night at UC-Berkley in California, Milo Yiannopoulos from Breibart was scheduled to speak to a group of conservative students. Being a highly controversial speaker, the conservative group agreed to pay for extra security. Having him speak is exactly what the First Amendment was put in place to protect. His beliefs are not popular amongst most of the progressive population, but can still be relevant to some conservative and has a right to be heard of the demand is there. The freedom of speech is to protect all speech whether it is unpopular and/or accepted by a majority of the population.
A protest was planned for progressives to show their disapproval of Mr. Yiannopoulos being allowed to speak. Which is ironic in itself. Peaceful demonstrations,

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