{"id":7756,"date":"2005-08-19T07:44:47","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T14:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/08\/19\/good-idea-bad-idea.html"},"modified":"2005-08-19T07:44:47","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T14:44:47","slug":"good_idea_bad_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/19\/good_idea_bad_i.html","title":{"rendered":"Good idea, bad idea …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just in case anyone thought that the “Left” and “Right” were coherent in their views on any given issue (assuming as well that they are coherent titles to begin with), the Flea<\/a> offers some observations:<\/p>\n

Left<\/em>
\nCensorship is bad because adults should be able to hear curse-words on tv.
\nCensorship is good because tobacco advertising, heck, all advertising, is evil.<\/p>\n

Right<\/em>
\nCensorship is bad because people have the right to erect a Golden Calf in their court-room.
\nCensorship is good because boobies on tv could lead to dancing.<\/p>\n

Etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just in case anyone thought that the “Left” and “Right” were coherent in their views on any given issue (assuming as well that they are coherent titles to begin with),…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136529,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/apparently-the-fcc-gets-a-lot-of-complaints-about-youtube.html","url_meta":{"origin":7756,"position":0},"title":"Apparently the FCC gets a lot of complaints about YouTube","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-May-18 10:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"The majority seem to be \"Anyone who takes stuff I like down from their privately owned site is practicing censorship because YouTube is a public utility so the FCC should be forcing them to leave up the stuff I like.\" Though there's a good sprinkling of \"YouTube has stuff I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-2.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":128368,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/censorship-is-not-the-way-to-battle-terrorism.html","url_meta":{"origin":7756,"position":1},"title":"Censorship is not the way to battle terrorism","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Oct-15 7:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"But terrorism makes a great excuse for censorship of all sorts.I vote with Jefferson: the best way to combat bad ideas is with good ideas:'Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. 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