"I support Free Speech, but I do not consider _______ Free Speech."

[napoleon_in_rags]

209. I've been laying off the DU lately...

But last time I was here I posted that, and now I came back to see this one as one of my first reads:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021440089
Then this response. Point is, there really is a cultural divide we're running up against here bigger than a few rioters.

I think its going to go away though. What's going to happen is movement away from mass media toward customized individual media. The first steps are underway by the big players: I've heard it referred to in private as "have engines", the replacement for search engines. They decide what you want before you want it and give it to you. They satisfy you while exercising subtle control over your information intake. Eventually they will provide individuals with the cultural capital needed to maintain their optimal social spheres, and viral videos will lose propagation power. So free speech won't go anywhere, but people will begin to opt out from listening in favor of more optimal information diets, just like how we opt out of not being tracked by owning cell phones. The whole thing has its own terrible ramifications, but conflicts over offensive free speech going global aren't one of them.

That's my futurism rant for the night.

PEace