But why should Kingwell or any other academic, or any political party, or the social justice movement, or a cabal of pro-corporate media grandees for that matter, get to define the parameters of acceptable speech? What's being talked about here is transforming the idea of free speech into one of managed or acceptable speech, where some august personage or body will presumably get to set the standards. But managed speech, which appears to be what Kingwell prefers, isn't really free speech, and where democracy is concerned it really is a slippery slope.