Hey guess what?
Guess what word gets you banned from participating in a debate on an abortion bill in Michigan.
Quote OTD: Freedom, Rights and Accountability – the denialism of fools and knaves
It is depressing to have to point out, yet again, that there is a distinction between having the legal right to say something & having the moral right not to be held accountable for what you say.
I don’t think that means what you think it means: Margaret Court edition
It is hard that they can voice their opinions but I am not allowed to voice my opinion.
says Margaret Court, freely sharing her opinion on the pages of The Australian.
Andrew Bolt has been found in breach of the Racial Discrimination Act
… with respect to statements made by the serial trollumnist in published articles from 2009/2010 questioning whether the Aboriginality of certain pale-skinned indigenous people was genuine…”contained errors of fact, distortions of the truth and inflammatory and provocative language”
When one’s right to dissent is so terribly, terribly suppressed…
…that one can only manage to get one’s views published in the opinion pages of a national broadsheet, one knows that the nation is in a parlous state of enforced conformity indeed.
Taking Responsibility For What People Say On Your Website
Without certain guidelines for acceptable content in comments the substantive arguments get buried in a flood of reactionary soundbites and frequently eliminationist rhetoric. This is not merely disturbing, it actively perpetuates partisan/ideological bias.
Why is it always
… contrarians who can’t be arsed to set up their own free blog who whinge about being “silenced” when they’re not allowed to dominate comment threads on other people’s blogs?
Quick Hit: Today in ‘equality’
Her refusal to cheer for him in basketball games led to her being thrown off the team, and she then sought to sue her school (specifically for infringing her freedom of speech).
Femmostroppo Reader March 29, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
It’s not censorship when it’s a personal decision over privately owned space
aka One More Time For The Clueless! “Free speech” has never meant that individuals or corporations are obliged to provide a forum for speech they find obnoxious on their own private property.
When your advertisers leave in droves, that’s not an abridgement of your free speech rights
Something which most junior high schoolers could tell you straight out of their civics textbook, “Dr Laura”
Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again? No way…
..and you Aussies know the rest. Someone asked me the other day about Aussies and swearing,
Ann Coulter loves competition in the free market, except when it’s competition in free speech
Ann Coulter has been getting a lot of traction over the last couple of days with talk of being censored by having a speech cancelled. So, who was it exactly who cancelled Coulter’s speech on the campus of the University of Ottawa?
Deleting blog comments: exercise of Property Rights vs Free Speech
By tigtog on July 17, 2012
This accusation of suppressing speech online keeps on coming up (it’s a fundamental plank in the ongoing FTBullies smear campaign): the allegedly terrible awful no-good horrible “crime” of deleting comments on a blog. To which I say bah humbug pish tosh harrumph and quote a 2010 comment here: .
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