Alberto Monteiro wrote: > > Jeroen wrote: > > > >Yikes. That means that this professor was arrested and jailed simply > >because he wrote something negative about Rabin. So much for freedom of > >speech. Not the kind of behaviour one would expect from a country that > >boasts of being the only democratic country in the Middle East. > > > But I know of people who have been arrested in IIRC Belgium for > publishing pictures of child pornography. So much for freedom of > speech. Not the kind of behaviour one would expect from a continent that > boasts of being the only democratic federation in the World. > > IOW: freedom of speech *is not* unlimited, anywhere.
True indeed, and even I would say, for the better - however, it is when we go from restricting classes of speech that are patently harmful (child porn) to selective censorship that serve immediate political goals that we've obviously crossed a line - indeed, I would say at that point the line was crossed long since. -j-
