Censorship By Fear?
Oct. 14th, 2006 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tabular_rasaUrrgh . . .
14-year-old girl gets pissed off, writes "KILL BUSH" on her MySpace, thinks the better of it, takes it down-- and still gets hunted down and threatened by Secret Service agents.
She's fourteen, guys. That's not to say fourteen-year-olds don't know what they're saying-- but, honestly, they get dramatic on public forums. Nobody calls suicide helplines for wrist-slashing poetry on Xanga; no one should be calling the Secret Service about this girl.
Then again, in idealism, I'm all about free speech, including the advocation of unpopular and controversial opinions, including this. (Though, of course "Kill Bush" is so short it can hardly be considered true advocation. I mean, "Fuck Bush," one word different, is written in practically every liberal forum in the country :-P). I wouldn't personally support them all; I'd just be fine with them being presented. Ideation is not necessarily a plan, and a plan is not necessarily an inevitable execution. (Once again, I draw to my suicide parallel: practically everyone thinks about committing suicide at some point, but true completions are thankfully rare.)
14-year-old girl gets pissed off, writes "KILL BUSH" on her MySpace, thinks the better of it, takes it down-- and still gets hunted down and threatened by Secret Service agents.
She's fourteen, guys. That's not to say fourteen-year-olds don't know what they're saying-- but, honestly, they get dramatic on public forums. Nobody calls suicide helplines for wrist-slashing poetry on Xanga; no one should be calling the Secret Service about this girl.
Then again, in idealism, I'm all about free speech, including the advocation of unpopular and controversial opinions, including this. (Though, of course "Kill Bush" is so short it can hardly be considered true advocation. I mean, "Fuck Bush," one word different, is written in practically every liberal forum in the country :-P). I wouldn't personally support them all; I'd just be fine with them being presented. Ideation is not necessarily a plan, and a plan is not necessarily an inevitable execution. (Once again, I draw to my suicide parallel: practically everyone thinks about committing suicide at some point, but true completions are thankfully rare.)
