in reply to Re^8: PM joins the SOPA Blackout?
in thread PM joins the SOPA Blackout?

my property != your speech

A link I linked, html I wrote, is my free speech, not your property

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Re^10: PM joins the SOPA Blackout?
by JavaFan (Canon) on Jan 18, 2012 at 11:55 UTC
    So, a link to your daughters school, with her time schedule, mailed to that shady figure in a long trench coat that lives nearby is fine, as it's to be seen as free speech, and damn your privacy concerns? If you pay somewhere, and the seller then publishes your credit card details on the web, that's free speech too?

    Free speech is important. But it isn't a right that trumps everything else, under any circumstances.

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      A link to your daughter's school, with her time schedule would be a serious breach of school security. There would be bigger questions to be answered then whether or not it's free speech. Same goes for credit card details.

      I like to think that here on monks we take data security a little more seriously than that.

      What you've just done is diverted the whole SOPA discussion into a red herring save the children argument.

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        No, all I did was showing that just bouncing up and down and screaming "free speech" doesn't get you very far. There are limits to free speech.

        Where the limits are is a matter of debate.

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      If only things were that easy to separate. You *really* have to force reasoning to justify that.

      "...the adversities born of well-placed thoughts should be considered mercies rather than misfortunes." — Don Quixote
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        Sure its easy, if I yell out JavaFan bought a hookah on Wall Street, its like making a link to hookahs on Wall Street -- its free speech, I'm breaking no laws, regardless of the legality of buying hookahs on Wall Street, smoking, or whatever else JavaFan does on Wall Street.

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      a link is none of those things, esp that information

      a nail joins two pieces of wood, that doesn't make a nail a table

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        a link is none of those things
        I wrote:
        So, a link to your daughters school, with her time schedule,
        So, please answer the question again.
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