The cure for speech you don't like is speech you do, not less speech for everyone.
"The best remedy for false or unpleasant speech is more speech, not less speech," Justice James M. Johnson of the Washington Supreme Court wrote.
That, Justice Scalia, is what Citizens United gave us — less speech, the few dominating the many with a very narrow message.
That "more with less" speech in September 2010 implied that the research budget might have to be brutally slashed.
The term was coined in the research paper "Overheard Cell-Phone Conversations: When Less Speech is More Distracting" in the journal Psychological Science.
Some of the BBC's most successful programmes, such as Chris Moyles and Russell Brand, are more or less speech shows, owing more to Americans such as Howard Stern than any British tradition.
"We have made clear that if the government could achieve its interests in a manner that does not restrict speech, or that restricts less speech, the government must do so," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said for the majority.
For once the best approach to hate speech appears to be less speech - at least by the representatives of Big Politics and Big Media who regularly appear with Imus.
It is clear that the smaller LSD indicates the less speech distortion.
