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From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Expansion of rec.humor.funny to other networks
Message-ID: <749@aoa.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 18:35:36 GMT
References: <439@corpane.UUCP> <3100@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <9773@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1989Mar16.165623.20831@utzoo.uucp> <487@tiamat.fsc.com>
Reply-To: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Organization: Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. USA
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In article <487@tiamat.fsc.com> jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor) writes:
>In article <1989Mar16.165623.20831@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> Freedom of speech means nothing if it's only the freedom to speak "clean",
>> "pure" words, where somebody else defines what is clean and pure.  It has
>> to include the right to be obnoxious and offensive.
>A recent "Shoe" comic strip put this very nicely, to paraphrase:
>	"To guarantee freedom of speech, we must be willing to
>		accept dumbness of speech."
Heyhey. Dont' you guys know the difference between freedom of expression
and offensive behaviour? Free example:
1) I disagree that you should be allowed to say anything you wish about
someone so long as you don't actually make criminal accusations.
2) You dumb f***s have no *** idea what you're talking about. You are
all probably Commies anyway, so go eat s**t.
Now, should both of these examples really be covered by free speech?


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