‘The most powerful publishers the world has ever seen’: Fara Dabhoiwala on the real battle over free speech

Historian Fara Dabhoiwala on the 18th-century hack who invented free speech absolutism and then sold out to the government—and why that same doctrine now shields Big Tech and the powerful instead of the public.

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