What I don't think the public fully realizes, though, is the lack of accountability in the dominant platform for massive online speech in 2016.
Yet some in the top 0.1percentt feel that the ability to make it rain on their favorite politicians is the only way to combat a public that's waking up to the massive transfer of "speech" that's been made to a tiny group of Americans.
The strategy that emerged from those considerations became known as "massive retaliation," following a speech made by U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in January 1954, when he declared that in the future a U.S. response to aggression would be "at places and with means of our own choosing".
In recent months a sustained campaign by the media, NGOs, foreign commentators and some scientists has seemingly convinced many that English law is uniquely draconian, a massive threat to free speech and scientific debate, that it has no proper public interest defence, doesn't protect expressions of opinion and that, as a result, London is infested with libel tourists.
We are at Hacked Off massive advocates of free speech it's integral to our democracy and we believe in it fully," she said.
This is, of course, a massive blow to free speech, much in the same way that not being allowed to accuse your business competitors of being child pornographers, or shout "fire" in a crowded theatre also impinges on our ability to say whatever we want whenever we want.
Microsoft was already devoting a large part of its massive R&D budget to speech-recognition technology, but it hoped that L&H would offer a short cut.
Meanwhile, it's building a massive database of accented-English speech, which can be used to improve its system and other speech recognition systems.
In it, a miscast Kevin Costner playing real-life District Attorney Jim Garrison delivers an emotional final speech revealing a massive government conspiracy.
