From: salyavin808 <[email protected]> ---In [email protected], <s3raphita@...> wrote :
What interests FFLifers? (That's not a rhetorical question.) When I started this thread yesterday I smiled to myself thinking that I had lit the blue touch paper and now all I had to do was sit back and watch the fireworks fly! I imagined the angry exchanges between those who were appalled by the decision of Sony to pull the film The Interview and those who defended the corporation citing concerns about public safety as being paramount. But apart from a quip from Bhairitu no one rose to the bait. Yet we're talking freedom of expression here. The First Amendment. Go figure. I guess you've learned something. Not everyone reads every post and has the time to respond even if they are interested in the subject. Plus, not everyone reads the replies carefully enough to know if anyone replied. Hint hint. :-) I replied, and even "on topic for FFL," linking this whole incident to recent attempts by a number of people to have the people whose voices they didn't like driven off this forum. The trick is not to take it personally. Exactly. Even if you're one of the voices they're trying to silence. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell Liberty: The Right to Tell People What They Don't Want to Hear | | | | | | | | | | | Liberty: The Right to Tell People What They Don't Want t...This is about your right as an American to produce and consume political, artistic and social expression without governmental terrorism and censorship, in this case... | | | | View on www.huffingtonpost... | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
