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In reply to the discussion: A war is raging against free speech [View all]Jessy169
(602 posts)I'm one of the little people, a minor and almost insignificant cog in the wheel, just a software engineer who has an opinion. Me planning on doing anything that big would be Walter Mitty territory. I just feel obligated by my sense of right/wrong to promote discussion and state my opinions on the excesses of freedom of speech in America -- and there are many, many excesses. I'll leave it to the important people to make the plans. My own personal point of view is that the laws we have and the rulings/decisions we have on first amendment free speech are just fine the way they are. We only need another ruling or two that recognizes the significant development in the free speech area of consideration that the internet and other communications technologies has made. America is the land of the free and the brave, the home of the lunatic fringers and trigger happy cowboys. We'll never be able to "limit" hate speech in America -- it is the American way -- we take the good with the bad sides -- we deal with it. But we might give some consideration and reasonable/logical debate to whether or not it might be better to somehow/someway contain American hate speech inside America, or at least not allow those individuals who are intent on causing trouble from targeting groups in other countries -- the "Innocence" video being just one example of that, and what the U.N. folks are talking about.