Comment by dragonwriter
9 years ago
> No one liked what they had to say, but as Americans, we felt we were obligated to protect their ability to say it
Their right to say it.
Their ability to say it is a different thing.
9 years ago
> No one liked what they had to say, but as Americans, we felt we were obligated to protect their ability to say it
Their right to say it.
Their ability to say it is a different thing.
Can you expound on what you see as the differences?
Their right: are they prevented from speaking, and using whatever resources they have to write.
Their ability: do they have the tools they would like to have (and that others might own) to communicate effectively.
When governments ban printing presses, which I think actually has happened in the past in Europe, would you consider that preventing people's right to free speech? I would. The difference here is it isn't necessarily governments, but rather corporations that control access to the internet (printing press).
I think in the printing press example, people ended up stealing them to print. I'm not sure you can steal the internet.
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