THE TRANSATLANTIC EP. 8 | Should free speech be absolute?

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission) · April 7, 2026

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Host Bakhtin Yushanov opens the Transatlantic podcast produced by the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), explains the program's focus on freedom and security across the U.S., Europe, and Central Asia, and welcomes listeners.

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Sarah McLaughlin, a senior scholar at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, told the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe podcast that U.S. and European approaches to restricting hateful speech diverge, and warned of rising domestic threats to free expression in higher education and online anonymity.

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