If you can’t say something nice…
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Larry Lessig might actually dare to delete your offensive personal attacks (unless they’re against him). Good for him, I say.
Having been twice thwarted by technology (I’m sure it’s my fault, it usually is) from leaving a comment directly on the blog in response
to his apparent request for us to bless his new policy, here’s what I wanted to say:
I find this policy so reasonable that it’s weird to me that you feel the need to get permission to initiate it. Perhaps this is the result of spending time with the European media and FoE (Freedom of Expression) crowd who would see it as a normal measure against hate speech. They have been known to refer (lovingly, of course) to their US counterparts as “First Amendment Nazis.” I suppose some of their tolerance of intolerance has rubbed off on me, but I say delete those nasty personal attacks without a second thought!
Tags: Lessig, Freedom_of_Expression, Free_Speech, Comments, Hate_Speech
