Cash incentivised speech is arguably not free.

That would make most (if not all) of today's mainstream media speech (and not only) as "not free".

To add, in essence I agree with you, that's why I regard Jean-Jacques Rousseau as one of the really few free thinkers out there, i.e. because he was aware that as soon as he was accepting to be paid for what he was writing then his speech would become "imprisoned".

	▲	dspillett an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> That would make most (if not all) of today's mainstream media speech (and not only) as "not free". Yep. I was going to say I wouldn't go as far as all, but I can't think of a mainstream counter example…
	▲	dtj1123 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm not entirely sure that I believe this, although I do believe a strong argument can be made here. I think the idea that various mechanisms in modern society are subtly corroding free speech en masse with various nasty knock-on effects is an interesting one though.