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Online harassment can silence free speech, but responding with censorship might do more harm than good. How do we identify a solution that curbs harassment while preserving freedom of expression? On this episode of Rights Up, a six-part series in collaboration with PeopleACT, lawyer Syahredzan Johan debates MCCHR’s Long Seh Lih about whether freedom of expression also entails freedom to make insensitive and offensive statements.