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By Dilan Thampapillai, published 14/8/2012A liberal democracy doesn't require an unbridled amount of free speech
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Free speech is ultimately the weapon of power. In any society, the rich have a lot more freedom of speech than the poor, men more than women, adults more than children, and majorities more than minorities.
What is necessary for a properly functioning democracy is not free speech but FAIR speech. And we can only really maintain fair speech through regulating and moderating the means by which those with more power use speech and other forms of communication to maintain their status and control over those with less power.