Thanks for posting this...
remember I was simply wondering aloud.
I do *not* support the site's message in the least.
On a somewhat related issue, I was watching the
Today's Show Wed. morning. A lawyer who had passed the
bar was censored for his white supremacist ideas
was not given a license to by his state's ethics
committee to practice law. Rightly Alan Derceritz <sp?>
argued that as long as the lawyer was not inciting
violence, Alan was considering taking this person's case.
This is an interesting concept like the right of
the Klu Klux Klan to march *but not* incite violence.
Was merely pointing this important concept to support
free speech... whose speech is to be censored?
I worry always the slippery slope. Even to the
extent of bringing up a dialogue about a site
that I find personally offensive and do not support
what they are espousing in anyway. I am
personally pro choice. But I also support someone's
right to be pro life.
I do think as Alan pointed out on Today that through
taking this man's case if (indeed he is not espousing
violence) will shine the light on the lawyer's extreme
views and act as a dialogue extension in the "court
of public opinion." In other words, through supporting
one's right to speak out may indeed have the opposite
effect of the original speaker's intent. Interesting
change up yes?
Look at the related links to the article that Kathy sent us:
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/biztech/articles/13abortion.html
January 13, 1999
New York Times
"Free Speech Debated in Suit Over Anti-Abortion Web Site"
By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK
and more importantly to continue the dialogue:
http://forums.nytimes.com/comment/
The New York Times Forums
this link in the Times article did not function:
http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?13@@.eea88dc
> [SOURCE: New York Times (A11), AUTHOR: Sam Howe Verhovek]
> <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/02/biztech/articles/03abortion.html>
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