[Foundation-l] Attack pages at Encyc. Dramatica

[Nathan]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM, M. Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> Whatever happened to freedom of speech? Encyclopedia Dramatica is a
> parody site. Plenty of people have tried to shut them down before,
> it's unlikely to ever happen (and in my opinion, should never happen).
> If they have an offensive article about you, trying to get rid of it
> will probably make it worse.
>


In almost any jurisdiction, freedom of speech has exceptions that
include obscenity, defamation, certain types of hate speech, threats,
etc. You can generally find all of those at ED; such speech isn't
protected, nor should it be.

Nathan