BTW not publishing comments is not censorship but is akin to ensuring toilet paper is available in a washroom.
Free Speech Under Attack
For libertarians this is an age of paradox.
On one hand, we are winning the economic war, as free market capitalism is on the upswing across the globe. But at the same time we are losing the fight to protect our individual freedoms.
The right to free speech is especially under attack. As a society, we seem to have forgotten why censorship is wrong.
Here's what others have had to say about free speech:
"Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage." -- Winston Churchill
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."-- Euripides, Greek tragic poet (480 or 485 B.C. - 406 B.C)
"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."-- Benjamin Franklin, 1730
"The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself."-- Granville Hicks (1901-1982)
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."-- John F. Kennedy
For more quotes on the evils of censorship, go here.
2 comments:
oh btw, is that for my benefit?
No te only reason is you are not interested in in alternative points of view. You just want to spout from your pulpit because you like the sound of your own voice.
Others, invite discussion.
1)I do not have an audio hookup so your "sound of your own voice" comment as usual is incorrect.
2)Many do NOT invite comments and contributors like you are probably the reason.
3)"Invite discussion." Give me one example where you have ever posted anything that would precipitate a discussion.
4)You window shade commandoes need to find some new bogeymen....Mike Harris hasn't been around for years and you leftwing nutbars refuse to confront the fact that much of Harris did was due to the liberals in Ottawa and Queen's Park giving into leeches like you and the rest of us had to pay for your largesse.
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