I smiled at Robb's defense of free speech. Whose free speech? I wrote 343 letters to the Republic last year. You published seven of them. You didn't think 335 worthy enough or maybe there were other reasons. What about the buckets of hate mail Ed Montini receives every time you publish his column? What about all the hate mail from every malcontented idiot your editorial room receives daily? You don't publish that. Why not? Because it's inappropriate. You apply standards. You make the decision about what's relevant. Though you regularly publish editorials from Gabriel, you never publish responses to those editorials. That is your prerogative as a newspaper. So who is the one cutting the "free speech" here? You apply what are hopefully appropriate journalistic standards bearing in mind your readership. The internet gives every Tom, Dick and Mary the opportunity to get their messages out. The more readers attracted to a platform, the more potential advertising and the more money. The more crackpot, the more outrageous the ideas the greater number of hits. The system is a free for all and in the name of journalistic standards needs policing or at least a code of conduct.