No Rock, you are missing the point. I wouldn't sue you. Even if you mentioned me, which you didn't. See, I am a giant alien reptile from another planet. I really don't give a rat's behind about somebody giving me heat. I'm clean. Bullets bounce off, as it were.
But you must understand that there is a moral and ethical side to all this. You said in one of your posts, "do we still live in the United States"?
Yes, my friend, we do. Many, many people have given their lives to preserve the freedoms that we enjoy. Free people everywhere look to the United States as a model of freedom.
One of the things those people died for was the freedom for all of us to speak and write whatever we want, without fear of censorship. the problem with that is that things can get a bit out of hand. Like a 17 year old evil psychotic punk asshole can find out how to blow up his high school chums. Like my 3 year old kid can click on the mouse on my computer and pull up a picture of a young woman and a dog doing something extremely nasty.
That's the big debate. That's what the Internet is all about. What kind of changes are we going to see in the next 20 years, or even 5 years, with this brainless monster called the Internet, a tool that has the capacity to set millions of people free, and at the same time, tell some jerkoff punk how to make a bomb.
Beyond that, it's going to force us all to take a good look at what we write. Some things are against the law. Some things that people write are not "covered by free speech"
If you owned a publicly traded company for example, and published a phony press release in order to drive the stock higher and sell to the unsuspecting sheep, you would be breaking the law.
If you write, in a public forum, a lie about someone, in particular a lie that is being forwarded by someone else whose intentions are to cause damage to that other party, then you have broken the law. It's very simple.
We are all a part of this great experiment called the Internet. Some of us are interested in addressing and solving what we consider to be the problems inherent with it, and some of us are interested in causing trouble and pain.
Pick your side, and act accordingly. That's all I'm saying. |
