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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: epicure who wrote (50020)6/10/2002 1:13:57 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
if E believed in to-or-about restrictions, she would have stopped posting about a certain topic months ago.

Thing is, she wants other people to be restricted, but not her.

Which is completely typical of censors.

See Nat Hentoff's "Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee."

What's interesting to me is that while up until about 30 years ago censorship in this country was mostly a tool of conservatives rooting out sex and anti-American thought, in the past thirty years or so it has become much more a tool of liberals. Sure, conservatives are still trying to ban Tom Sawyer and Heather has Two Mommies from school libraries, but on the liberal side you have wide ranging speech codes on many college campuses, conservative newspapers being stolen and burned en masse to prevent their message from being read, conservative speakers being booed off podiums -- if they are even allowed to set foot there in the first place.

Those few of us left who truly believe in free speech are getting lonelier and lonelier.
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