Your fair discourse hath been as sugar, Making the hard way sweet and delectable. - discourse

[H]ow can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.