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In the Free Speech Tug of War, the Internet Is the Rope

Posted on September 30, 2012, 8:40 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

There is an overlay of mutual incomprehension in the struggle over the Innocence of Muslims video. But I would submit that both sides still have pretty clear ideas about what is at stake.

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