[WikiEN-l] Re: Filtering, etc.

[Vicki Rosenzweig]

At 06:17 PM 6/14/03 -0700, Sean Barrett wrote:
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>Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
>| Apparently so. Free speech, though constitutionally guaranteed,
>| is not practically guaranteed - just look at the [[Dixie Chicks]]
>| after they said something unfortunate.
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>Wow!  I hadn't heard that the Federal government punished them.  What
>was their sentence?
>
></sarcasm>  Here's a clue for any products of the American public
>education industry: the Bill of Rights is a list of things the
>/government/ is not allowed to do.  It says /nothing whatsoever/ about
>what individuals may or may not do.

In your eagerness to make a point, you may have overlooked that you
are the only person to mention the Bill of Rights in this context.

If the result of my stating position X is that large corporation Y takes
actions that cost me large amounts of money, when said corporation
has no business reason for doing so, *that is retaliation*. Being
legal doesn't make it right, and doesn't mean it's not an attempt to
prevent me--or the Dixie Chicks--from promoting that position.
-- 
Vicki Rosenzweig
vr at redbird.org
http://www.redbird.org