There is little over the Atlantic that bears much of a resemblance to the First Amendment, an absence (envied, sadly, by quite a few over here) that has often been exploited by a European political establishment that shows every sign of willingness to exploit the often deliberately exaggerated fear of ‘fake news’, a  phenomenon—such as  it is—far more healthily tackled by argument than by a gag, as a new excuse for shutting down speech of which it disapproves. Here’s France’s President Macron, a defender, we are often told, of Europe’s liberal order ...
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