{"id":32328,"date":"2013-01-26T13:19:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T20:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/26\/who-should-get-freedom-of-speech.html"},"modified":"2013-01-26T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T20:19:25","slug":"who-should-get-freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/26\/who-should-get-freedom-of-speech.html","title":{"rendered":"Who should get freedom of speech?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a French court&#39;s ruling that Twitter has to provide the true identity of some folks who made anti-Semitic comments online:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;You never needed a constitution to protect popular people\u2019s right to express popular opinions. When they say dumb things, nobody really minds, either. When stupid people express popular opinions, nobody objects, so no problem. Freedom of Speech exists<\/i> specifically <i>to protect<\/i> despicable <i>people who are uttering intolerable opinions, and that\u2019s a vital protection.&#39;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And as he notes later on (and what I always think of): what is currently considered unthinkable, awful, anti-social, harmful, or otherwise therefore criminal to day today may be very different tomorrow &#8212; and vice-versa.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/falkvinge.net\/files\/2013\/01\/file000667673639-646x363.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/falkvinge.net\/2013\/01\/26\/freedom-of-speech-is-primarily-the-right-for-stupid-people-to-say-dumb-things\/'>Freedom Of Speech Is Primarily The Right For Stupid People To Say Dumb Things (And That\u2019s A GOOD Thing) &#8211; Falkvinge on Infopolicy<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYesterday, a French court decided that people on Twitter have no right to anonymity when posting xenophobic comments. This is deeply troubling: the court says that unpopular opinions don&#8217;t have the sa&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/JBSuFGomqFB' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a French court&#39;s ruling that Twitter has to provide the true identity of some folks who made anti-Semitic comments online: &#39;You never needed a constitution to protect popular people\u2019s right to express popular opinions. When they say dumb things, nobody really minds, either. When stupid people express popular opinions, nobody objects, so no problem. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/26\/who-should-get-freedom-of-speech.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who should get freedom of speech?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2168,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/26\/the_hecklers_ve.html","url_meta":{"origin":32328,"position":0},"title":"The Heckler&#8217;s Veto","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 26-Feb-02 6:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"A fellow holds an opinion contrary to general public opinion. 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