# Freedom of Speech

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Podcast: [Business on the Edge, Silicon Valley](https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-on-the-edge-silicon-valley-7117474)
Published: 2025-09-15T21:00:50+00:00
Episode link: https://smallbizradio.podbean.com/e/freedom-of-speech/
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Duration seconds: 2413

## Resource

This wasn’t politics as usual. It was political violence. And violence of any kind is always a failure of leadership, a failure of our society’s character. We can agree or disagree with Charlie Kirk’s views, but none of that justifies taking a life. None of that excuses threats, extremism, or the kind of rhetoric that leads people to believe that violence is ever acceptable. What should unite us now are higher values — respect for life, justice, truth, restraint.

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