Much legal and philosophical work has been devoted to discussing the importance of protecting freedom of expression from legislative curtailment by the state. That state-centric focus has meant that the ways that wider social phenomena can stifle freedom of expression have, with a notable exception, escaped sustained philosophical attention. The paper reflects on the nature of socially coercive restrictions on free expression and offers an account of how it is appropriate to respond to such forms of social coercion. First, it considers a range of social costs pertaining to expression and argues that such costs can constitute meaningful restrictions on the freedom to express. Second, it reflects on the normative implications concerning that threat to free expression and defends two related moral duties citizens have to refrain from being complicit in unjustified social coercion—a duty of expressive toleration and a duty of respect for expressive agency.

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言论自由和社会胁迫

许多法律和哲学工作都致力于讨论保护言论自由免受国家立法限制的重要性。这种以国家为中心的焦点意味着，更广泛的社会现象扼杀言论自由的方式，除了一个明显的例外，已经逃脱了持续的哲学关注。该论文反映了对言论自由的社会强制限制的性质，并说明了如何适当地应对这种形式的社会强制。首先，它考虑了与表达有关的一系列社会成本，并认为这些成本可能对表达自由构成有意义的限制。第二，