Equally chilling. Jan
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Brook Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Censorship means THE GOVERNMENT shuts down your speech. A business has no > obligation to provide an open forum, and blip is a business. Supporting > free > speech policies in video hosting services is a worthy thing, but if blip > chose not to host campaign videos, it would not be censorship. If the FBI > showed up and told blip to take down the videos, THAT would be censorship. > > Blip has the right to refuse service to anyone, and a business refusing > service is not the same as censorship. A good argument can be made, though, > that in the absence of alternative, equivalent platforms such a thing would > have the same EFFECT as censorship. I think the limiting of access through > private control of speech platforms is a major problem in a > democracy/capitalist hybrid. It can certainly be as chilling as censorship, > and have the same effect on the ability of all to speak freely in an > environment where all can be heard, but it isn't, technically, censorship. > > Brook > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Jan McLaughlin Production Sound Mixer air = 862-571-5334 aim = janofsound skype = janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
