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I’m more and more of a free-speech essentialist

May 11, 2000 by Michael Boyle

as I get older, but then again, your free speech ends when fundamental human rights are trashed. The Canadian Broadcast standards board trashes Dr Laura. I see the contradiction in my position – but I think the right to speech and the right to use a public good to spread speech are quite different things – and the airwaves are a public good. [link via Outlet]

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