The situation for free speech in Europe is even worse than I thought

Greg Lukianoff · 14 Jan 2026

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Europe and the UK have turned compassion for vulnerable groups into a reason to criminalize speech that offends them.

Their wordsBut there’s a dark twist. In much of Europe and the UK, we’ve now used that expanding circle logic to shrink the circle of free speech. We say, “To show compassion for vulnerable groups, we must criminalize speech that offends them. It’s not really censorship if we do it to protect people.”

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