This afternoon Mark Fournier of Free Dominion received official notification that the hate speech allegation against the conservative web forum has been called off.

Moments ago, we received another letter from the Canadian Human Rights Commission, dated August 1, 2007, informing us that Marie-Line Gentes has withdrawn her complaint against Free Dominion and requested that the CRHC take no further action against us.

I would like to thank Ms. Gentes for making this move and will assume her motives for doing so were honourable.

The letter from the Canadian Human Rights Commission implies that no further action is contemplated at this time.

It is recommeded [sic], pursuant to paragraph 44(3)(b) of the Canadian Human Rights Act, that the Commission take no further proceedings in the complaint because the complainant has asked to withdraw the complaint.

Mr Fournier believes that national and international publicity—mostly from bloggers and other non-mainstream news sources—played a significant role in reversing this attack on unpopular but true and defensible speech.

Victory is sweet.  Congratulations to Free Dominion.

h/t: Big Blue Wave

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