"More state power, not free speech, the likeliest we-are-Charlie result"
Neil Macdonald's analysis on CBC is, as usual, incisive.
Well, everyone must at least feel better now, having chanted and declared for days that we're all Charlie. It was, or it seemed, a cry for freedom of speech, ringing outward from one of the world's first secular democracies.
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Next month, Washington is convening an international summit to discuss new <security> measures.
Canada is preparing new legislation to expand the powers of its security agencies.
The French, and the Americans, and no doubt the Canadians, are considering how better to monitor and obliterate incitement on the internet. Or, more precisely, what security officials consider incitement. It's a term that can be interpreted rather broadly, and no doubt will be.
Clearly, the ultimate answer to the Charlie Hebdo massacre will not be freer speech. It will be a mostly secret intensification of police power, with attendant shrinkage of individual freedoms.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/more-state-power-not-free-speech-the-likeliest-we-are-charlie-result-1.2898354
