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Are There Limits to Free Speech?

Jan 8, 2020 - Jan 8, 2020 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Heinz History Center
1212 Smallman Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Open to the Public | Free Admission and Parking

Free parking is located directly across the street in the Eleventh and Smallman Lot.

The accused shooter at Tree of Life was influenced by and active on social media platforms that promote hate and violence. How does society respond to incendiary speech that uses social media as a megaphone and a recruiting and indoctrinating tool? Is it time to re-think this problem?

Panel includes:

Moderator: Keith Burris

Executive Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Josh Shapiro

Pennsylvania Attorney General

Bruce Ledewitz

Professor of Law at Duquesne University School of Law

Wasi Mohamed

Pittsburgh Director of Community Entrepreneurship for Forward Cities

Meagan Cahill

Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation 

Ruth Ann Dailey

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Columnist

Rabbi Jeffrey Myers

Rabbi Hazzan at Tree of Life 

*Or L'Smicha Congregation

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