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Dardaigh
These people are not morons, despite the rubbish they produce.
They must realize that what they are putting out there is going to
further inflame emotions which are already running hot.
Common sense says not to further provoke people but there
are some in society who take great pains and joy in doing
exactly that.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
Why should serious subjects be exempted from criticism? How can the subject be adequately debated if we prohibit any content that may be deemed offensive? The end result is simple. If you are member of any identifiable group who wishes to stifle any criticism against you, resort to terrorist activities. THAT will shut them up.
Clonge
Freedom of speech must have its limitations. Google must remove the video on Facebook, which they own. It is akin to yelling "fire" in a theatre, when there is none. It's "causing" riots, injuries, property destruction and deaths. It was just meant to inflame Moslems. You just cannot "mess with Islam." Many adherents take the Koran literally. Google is just so damned indignant.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
ed shank
"FIRE" in a movie house should be the ONLY time ones speech rights should be punished.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
Ann
I belive that movie schould have been taken down immediately after its content cleary schow , that it was meant to stir up the muslim population. It happend before in Denmark in 2005, when cartoonists drew a picture of Mahammad with a bomb on his head. Protests rippelt through all muslim countries, just like it did this time. The cartoonists had to go in hiding,because they were threatend with death and the Prime Minister of Denmark called it a worst crisis than World war two.
We dont seem to learn from past experiences. We do the same thing over and over again.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
bigben
If you support freedom of speech then you must take the bad with the good. However, that doesn't mean there are no consequences to what you say. We have slander and libel laws which don't stop you from saying something that demeans or denigrates a person as long as you are aware that there is a price to be paid. We are lucky to have a constitution that spells out our rights, but none of them are absolute. There are established parameters.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
Shootah
I believe that speech that is supported by facts should be protected. While on the other hand, speech that is not capable of being defended by the facts of the matter, which is more someone's rant steeped in hatred or ignorance primarily intended to incite or provoke perhaps shouldn't be protected.
But then again, the problem of exactly who is discerning the difference, and what exactly their motivations are to seek censorship of something will forever be the culprit threatening free speech. Beyond the forementioned, whether or not it is brought forth in the appropriate venue, would also be something to be very, very, seriously considered.
It is much like the right of war protester"s speech being protected, which it should be. BUT, it has no place whatsoever being presented at or near the funeral of one our own who has given his life in defense of our country. I say this, in that the funeral isn't necessarily a public event, but is a ceremony to honor the fallen and their family for the most ultimate sacrifice an individual can ever make.
Likewise, the seriousness, consequences, or repercusions of yelling fire in an open and virtually empty field versus a crowded movie theater are distinctly different for obvious reasons. For in one instance, you can look at the perpetrator as simply being an idiot, while on the other hand the possibility exists that you would be looking at a potential criminal for having directly and unequivocally incited something that resulted in the injury or death of innocent people.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
pam.candelaria.9
I feel like you are taking to me directly. I was talking to a mental health worker yesterday and as i have been out-raged about comments on my time line saying I worked as a 10# hooker and has been deleting comments to my friends- I only have people I know on my facebook-- she said give it a few days and if she hasn't stopped by then she would send cops and a mental health worker, to her house. However,she has 4 kids--and her husband wouldn't be allowed to keep them-- due to abuse in the past. 8cops and mental health worker said yes he did do what he was accused of. She divorced him with-in a short time she got pregnant by a guy who only wanted her for sex. We were moving to WA so in a couple of months she was up here too.Her now Ex-hubby came to visit and promised the boys he wouldn't do it again,and she remarried him& had another kid.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 0 | |
