Tag
Free-Speech
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Nobody Paid Rent on the Airwaves
Broadcasters hold a scarce public commons, the electromagnetic spectrum, almost free, in exchange for a public interest promise nobody enforces. That unpriced grant is the real defect, and it explains both the networks’ capture of a …
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Disagreement Is Not Aggression
Express a mild opinion in public now and the response often comes back sized for an assault. Somewhere we lost the ability to tell disagreement from aggression, and the confusion is corrosive. A free society is one that settles its …
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The Boycott and the Blacklist
Cancellation gets defended as just a boycott, free-market consequences for free speech. It is not. A boycott is the use of your own liberty. A cancellation is an attack on someone else’s, and the difference is structural, not a matter …