On 12/7/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Frankly, I really don't get it. Siegenthaler is supposedly a defender of free speech rights. Doesn't he realize that making ISPs liable for content spoken by others would stifle free speech? Doesn't he agree that the ability to speak anonymously is absolutely critical to free speech?
I think, like a lot of people who grew up in an age when free speech was something only accredited journalists and their sources exercised, he preferred that system. Today's "everyone can be a journalist" Internet bothers a lot of people.
-Matt