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Ironically, now that G has been ordered by a court to take the content down, keeping it up is a form of protest, i.e. a comment on the law, i.e. political speech.

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No irony to it, freedom of speech is way more limited in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_Canada

My journalism teacher used to say that legally speaking, there is no such thing as free speech here.

Either way, I'm sure the Supreme Court has considered this.

There is plenty of free speech in Canada. It draws the line at hate speech differently then the United States does, but the concept is not foreign to the US either. See - the checkered history of 'fighting words'.

That's not how it works.

I don't know any canadian / european case law on speech, so you're probably right w.r.t the law.

In the US speech is one area where the courts (sometimes) enforce abstract ideals over justice over the needs of the state and the demands of law enforcement.

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