NICOLE FRITZ: Corporates flex their muscles to slap down critics
Companies often tie civil society challenges in expensive and exhausting legal traps to escape regulation
10 June 2020 - 18:11
Free expression. That debate right now in SA seems to be about where we understand the margins of that to be: curious, offensive academic offerings? Pickled, long-past-their-shelf-life columnists?
A court case happening right now potentially poses real threats to those we traditionally think should sit comfortably at the very centre of the right to free expression: civil society and the public at large...
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