from Green Left (Australia). From Australia we get this report on the creative ways that the managers of their capitalist society limit free speech. Compare the methods used there with those we face in the US.
In the US it's clear that free speech is only permitted to the extent that few people hear it; otherwise it is severely limited when it attacks the governing system and ruling class policies. We have been provided with numerous spectacles and TV entertainment that have been very successful in distracting people from any serious examination of the issues facing our society, while mainstream media coverage of the news succeeds in confusing the issues as well as dis-informing most us.