I'm Not Giving Up My Free Speech Rights Because Some Cretin Made An Anti-Muslim Film

[karynnj]

26. You may have a right to say everything you want, but you do not have a right

to propagate it IF IT AGAINST THE TOU.

Hate speech does violate DU rules and the rules are enforced by a random jury of the community here. From jury results that I have seen, I have disagreed with the verdict on both sides but overall think that it works very well. I have seen similar rules work well on Daily Kos.

You Tube said that the trailer did not violate their TOU. Asking if it did was a very valid thing for the administration to do - just as I don't think it wrong that I and others have alerted on things that were found to be ok by the juries. I also have been on juries that hid things I thoought were ok.

I know that other countries have stricter hate speech laws that came out of their own histories. I suspect that in a time where self publishing is extremely easy, it would be nearly impossible to actually stop not just the right to speak - even if hatefully - but to make that speech available internationally.

However, the right to condemn in the strongest terms anything you see as hate speech is not just acceptable or a privilege of your own freedom of speech, but a responsibility when staying quiet could lead to only the hate speakers being heard. That was exactly where the administration was and where I think the DU people were.

I have no problem with the administration saying that this film offends them. I see a problem that Mitt Romney objected to a perfectly normal statement by the Cairo embassy and the fact that there has NOT been much criticism of the film from the Republicans. Even GWB condemned similar stuff.