[47178] in Cypherpunks
Hate Speech Ban Metaphor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Baugh)
Sun Jan 14 13:55:40 1996
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 10:49:10 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bruce Baugh <bruceab@teleport.com>
Saw this on news.admin.net-abuse.misc:
In article <ebohlmanDL3M0I.B2J@netcom.com>,
ebohlman@netcom.com (Eric Bohlman) wrote:
<snip>
:Banning this sort of discussion accomplishes nothing positive. It
:creates the *appearance* of having fought bigotry without actually having
:done so. It doesn't address the problem, it sweeps it under the rug, and
:bigotry that's been swept under the rug has a nasty habit of catching
:fire. Banning hate speech is sort of like sending a business card to
:Craig Shergold; it lets you feel like you've done your good deed for the
:day, even though you really haven't.
<snip>
That gets _my_ vote for metaphor of the day.
Bruce Baugh
bruceab@teleport.com
http://www.teleport.com/~bruceab
