1. Private publications are under no obligation to publish everything that is
sent their way. Freedom of speech means that private publishers can choose
whatever they choose to publish, without coercion from the state or any other
interests. The New York Times, for instance, is under no obligation to publish
every essay that David Duke submits to them. Declining to publish such essays
is not an act of censorship. It is an act of editorial judgement freely
exercised by a publisher. Google is an entirely different matter: it is a
(supposedly) universal information service. Free speech means that any private
publisher can publish whatever it chooses. Universal information services in
the public space should be required to provide access to all these
publications. Otherwise Google has the potential to evolve into the most evil
dictatorial entity ever to afflict the human race.
2. I provided more tolerance and leeway for the expression of theories by the
no-planers than almost anyone else I can think of. My patience ran out when
the no-planers started to engage in vicious attacks on everyone who disagreed
with them and gave the appearance of being on a mission to destroy the 9/11
Truth Movement. Either the no-planers are agents provocateurs or they are
clinically deranged. *Even if they are right* (highly unlikely), they have
chosen the wrong methods to try to make their case. David Ray Griffin and
Robert Bowman have been far more effective in reaching the public and creating
momentum for a new investigation of 9/11 than the no-planers.
Rosalee Grable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Brave words from a guy who banned No Planers just like the censorous
Loose Change Hangout did.
http://killtown.blogspot.com
http://811movement.com
There's still no plane in the first hit footage, and the second hit is
still cartoons.
Watch Mr. McBride play coverup man just like the censorous despots he
decries.
Sean McBride wrote:
> 2. Nothing is more Nazilike than the suppression of free speech and
> opposing points of view. The best way to counter hate speech is with
> reasoned speech, with truth speech. Self-appointed censors invariably
> turn into Nazis, Stalinists and Maoists -- it's an ironclad law of
> human nature and human history. I am not afraid of hate speech.
> Dealing with practitioners of hate speech is like shooting fish in a
> barrel -- just calmly answer their misinformation with the
> well-documented truth. Have the anti-free speech anti-Nazis
> completely forgotten that the Nazis were enemies of free speech? It
> is a slippery slope from depriving people of their free speech rights
> to depriving them of their lives. All totalitarian despots throughout
> world history have begun their careers with an assault on free speech.
