In full: Rowan Atkinson on free speech

This video has close to 2,500,000 views on YouTube as of October 2020. The YouTube description reads:
"The forerunner of the Defend Free Speech campaign was called “Reform Section 5”. This speech by Rowan Atkinson at the launch event in Parliament in 2012 should be heard by every politician, journalist and campaigner before they start calling for laws to silence those they regard as ‘extremists’."
Thank you to Defend Free Speech for this video! You can follow their channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channe....l/UCQrJSZqagqHCls2Vk
PS. This video refers more to Britain than the USA, but is nonetheless a marvelous 9 minute defense of free speech.