“We see it in the harassment online, the banking closures, the social media censorship, the content restrictions dictated by credit card companies and the overall loss of business. We are motivated to protect our businesses and our rights. Politicians should realize that there are millions of creators, with hundreds of millions of fans, and we’re ready to mobilize."
Guess we're going to war again...over freedom of speech.
Is this new? Nope. Is it a novel idea? Nope. Is it old, pedestrian, tired and worn out? Yep.
How long have silly little politicians and power thirsty wanna be theocrats been doing this?
In 443 BCE, Rome established the office of censor, who was responsible for conducting the census and regulating the morals of the citizens. The term "censorship" comes from the Latin word censere, which means "to give as one's opinion, to assess."
That, ladies and gentlemen and "peoples" of alternate persuasions and identities...is a long damn time ago. All I know is, it won't work, not gonna happen. Sure, in some countries the masses are controlled as to what they can say, read, write, view and create, and I truly have sympathy for them. May they rise up and overthrow their evil overlords, and decapitate every single one of them. But here in the USA and the West, we have rights and Constitutions and attitudes and guns and...well my sentiment can be encapsulated with the meme below, regarding telling me what I can read, write and create.
Censorship is not confined to one political philosophy. I knew a Librarian who told me they kept Playboy Magazine in the Public Library.
ReplyDeleteI asked her why? She said it had literary value. (I dont disagree) and she further said we dont do censorship. Great, I asked if they had Penthouse (you can tell this goes back a long time ago) and Hustler. "No," she said, they have no literary value..." I asked, who made that decision>? She said a comittie. I said so you do exercise censorhip and she got really pissed and said "No we dont!! " Hmmm what do you think? Like you I am tired of the morales police too!
Sounds about right. When it's arbitrary and subjective, it's no good. One's mans trash is another persons gold. Knowledge, ideas, thoughts, information, should never be restricted. It should be freely available, and if it's wrong, bogus or stupid, it can then be challenged. But censoring, burning books, things of that nature, is only done by people that fear information, alternate ideas, and in some cases facts and truth.
Deleteyou are a strong willed person, easy to respect, sissy Bella
ReplyDeleteWell thank you for the compliment sissy Bella, but I'm not all that strong. I just hate when someone tries to tell me how to live my life, what I can say, write, read or think. Fuck 'em. :)
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