Regulars of terrorist website Free Republic have lost it, lost it, lost it. They've lost the election, and now they've lost every last tress of sanity they once had (which wasn't much to begin with).
But they're funny. So we laugh at them. They laughed at everyone else in 2004, so they reap what they sow.
Sometimes though you have to be serious about things. When America's young people are in danger, our elected representatives have a duty to act. After online harassment led to the deaths of several teenagers, there's now a bill in Congress to toughen penalties for cyberharassment. This bill is long overdue.
On Free Republic, articles from other publications are supposed to be posted under their original titles - but Freepers can't help but add their own commentaries to the headers.
Like this morning, a Freeper posted an article about the new bill against Internet harassment. In parentheses, they added this:
"Attack on free speech"
Harassing someone on the Internet is free speech now?
Well, it is according to Freepers.
I thought the only people who believed that were those who talked shit about me on the Internet some years back.
That's like if they started treating harassing phone calls as free speech. Wait, they already do.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
But what ab0ut 0ur fr33 sp3ach lololololol! (more Freeper Madness)
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There is free speech and then there is censorship. There are grey areas about what is profane and what is acceptable to say or do. These "rules" are set-up by different entities which represent a certain portion of the population of a people or in our case, a nation. These "rules" change from time to time in large part by court rulings on lawsuits that have been brought to test the validity of speech in question.
ReplyDeleteFreedom is about being educated and making choices. I believe that unless something is vile and hurts others, it should not be forbidden, illegal or censored.
One of the biggest setbacks we have suffered as a country has been the mixture of religion and politics. This is the cause of many problems in our country today.