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

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Waltz (Tschikovsky Op. 40) by Kevin MacLeod

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Pride by Kevin MacLeod

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Leaving Home by Kevin MacLeod

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