The right of free speech (in the US anyway) can only be violated by the government. Meaning it would be unconstitutional for the government to regulate speech. You are allowed to regulate speech within your own domain--you own house, business, blog, or publications you own or control.
Sometimes social pressure is extended to certain people/organizations to stifle or not restrict certain speech within their own domain--but that's social pressure, not force of law by a government. There is a big difference. Example: some political blogs might delete comments made by people with opposing views, there isn't anything "illegal" about this--it might be viewed as intelectually dishonest and people might complain, but no ones rights are violated. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know, I don't understand how deleting a comment from a blog > amounts to an attack on "free speach". I have deleted comments, they > where all spam comments, but I still deleted them. Did I violate the > spammer's free speach? If you go by some's definition, I just did. > > I understand the fear is that there will be no dialogue but how can > you have a real dialogue when you sometimes don't even know who you > are talking to? > > Heath > http://batmangeek.com > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Charles Iliya Krempeaux" > <supercanadian@> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > It's funny how the definition of the word censorship has been > > changing. AFAICT, it used to be about Freedom, but it changed into > a > > (forced) Right. > > > > I.e., it used to be about Government NOT using coercion against you > when you > > "spoke". But now it's about forcing people to listen to you when > you > > "speak". (Like forcing people to keep comments on their blog, etc.) > > > > > > See ya > > > > On 4/9/07, tony.katz <tony.katz@> wrote: > > > > > > From the New York Times > > > > > > http://tinyurl.com/38c8lx > > > > > > It's nice to know that MSM is only two weeks behind the times. > > > > > > Tony Katz > > > http://www.talkshowonthego.com > > > http://www.aweli.com > > > > > > -- > > Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. > > > > charles @ reptile.ca > > supercanadian @ gmail.com > > > > developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ > > > _____________________________________________________________________ _ > _____ > > Make Television > http://maketelevision.com/ > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ _ > _____ > > Cars, Motorcycles, Trucks, and Racing... > http://tirebiterz.com/ > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >
