tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311335984693001599.post1811001202944950394..comments2023-03-11T03:46:48.174-08:00Comments on Irregular Profundity: FAILKitemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597981591358406812noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311335984693001599.post-90162851983792835842011-09-22T10:34:21.798-07:002011-09-22T10:34:21.798-07:00Haha, I had been wondering when I would see a post...Haha, I had been wondering when I would see a post on this...<br /><br />Well, the interesting thing to me about the free speech rhetoric is that the right to free speech is claimed in private settings as if it applied there. The whole point of free speech is that the _government_ shouldn't interfere with it, not that you must be given a venue wherever you wish. I mean, it's tyrannical asshattery of the first kind to censor, filter, and muzzle users who are not causing harm simply because you don't like their message(not that I'm mentioning website names...coughinstructablescough), but you can't claim free speech rights as such when objecting to the actions of private individuals. <br /><br />I mostly agree with you, although I didn't think what he did in the beginning was that bad. Nobody had listened to past warnings or inquiries. Also, he didn't blackmail anyone or render the whole site useless.<br /><br />To be perfectly frank, I think ignoring him may have returned far better results. The negative response served no purpose other than to give him massive impetus to prove he was correct about the site being terribly insecure (which he was unequivocally successful in doing).<br /><br />I do take very strong exception to attributing this person's actions and the UK riots to generation. That smacks of a continuation of "The Good Old Days" syndrome. Your generation (the one that's controlling the free world at the moment) was - and is - decidedly *not* any less jackass-y than mine. I mean, you gave us Kanye, Dubya, Cheny, Bin Laden, Limbaugh, Bachman, Beck, Palin, Rick Perry, Chavez, Murdoch...okay, Murdoch's a bit old to lump in with your generation but you see what I mean. :P.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com