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‘Free speech,’ ‘freedom,’ the CRTC and Sun News

By ‘free speech’ some folks mean not ‘freedom’, or more specifically the ‘freedom to speak to power’, they mean speaking without constraint: saying whatever you want, whenever you want, about whoever you want, wherever you want.  The notion that ‘freedom’ equates with ‘no constraint’ or ‘doing what you want’ is a notion that’s workable until

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