{"id":49282,"date":"2015-01-19T07:49:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T14:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/19\/freedom-of-icky-speech.html"},"modified":"2015-01-19T07:49:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T14:49:31","slug":"freedom-of-icky-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/19\/freedom-of-icky-speech.html","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Icky Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Gaiman on why you shouldn&#39;t just defend speech you <i>like<\/i> or <i>enjoy<\/i> or  _agree with_ or <i>find pleasant.<\/i> It&#39;s the other stuff that needs defending first, because that&#39;s what sets the precedent protecting <i>your<\/i> stuff.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+WIST &#8211; Wish I&#8217;d Said That<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Law is a blunt instrument. It&rsquo;s not a scalpel. It&rsquo;s a club. If there is something you consider indefensible, and there is something you consider defensible, and the same laws can take them both out, you are going to find yourself defending the indefensible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <b>Neil Gaiman<\/b> (b. 1960) British fabulist<br \/><i>Neil Gaiman&rsquo;s Journal,<\/i> &ldquo;Why defend freedom of icky speech?&rdquo; (1 Dec 2008)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/wist.info\/gaiman-neil\/28034'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/sljAMqNiD6dmZ64Krq74orTR7NEakLMpRWjgzTOvmvyIJVFRp-RSxfc3egbnqi7HMMcpAw64cGnueBWrxMaQysiO66_by9hZvhJwgTn-eOlKQ06rSWOr4RYC2-2wLhT2b5ZoafI=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/wist.info\/gaiman-neil\/28034'>Gaiman, Neil &#8211; Neil Gaiman&rsquo;s Journal, &#8220;Why defend freedom of icky speech?&#8221; (1 Dec 2008) | WIST<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe Law is a blunt instrument. It&#8217;s not a scalpel. It&#8217;s a club. If there is something you consider indefensible, and there is something you consider defens\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/TnhbcgHpmvx'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Gaiman on why you shouldn&#39;t just defend speech you like or enjoy or _agree with_ or find pleasant. It&#39;s the other stuff that needs defending first, because that&#39;s what sets the precedent protecting your stuff. Originally shared by +WIST &#8211; Wish I&#8217;d Said That: The Law is a blunt instrument. It&rsquo;s not a scalpel. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/19\/freedom-of-icky-speech.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Freedom of Icky 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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-49282","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":13479,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/02\/neil_gaiman_on_why_censor.html","url_meta":{"origin":49282,"position":0},"title":"Neil Gaiman on why censorship is bad, even of icky stuff","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Dec-08 9:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not surprisingly, Gaiman writes eloquently and personally on why he supports the efforts of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund in protecting comics creators and retailers from censorship, even when...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comics &amp; Comic Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comics &amp; Comic Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4635,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/27\/bt03_why_the_cb.html","url_meta":{"origin":49282,"position":1},"title":"BT03 &#8211; Why the CBLDF?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 27-Jul-03 12:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'll confess that I find some of the stuff the CBLDF defends to be distasteful. 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