Dean Beeby

investigative journalist
freedom-of-information specialist
transparency advocate
author

A website about Canadian journalism and transparency

“But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”

from the essay On Liberty (1859) by John Stuart Mill