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In reply to the discussion: If the UK can do it....why the hell can't we? [View all]stopdiggin
(15,674 posts)in any sort of legal format. Period. (excepting the very narrow range of what is already recognized as 'dangerous' speech) That does not preclude you (or I, or anyone else) from making the strongest of objections and opposition to any kind of speech we wish to combat. And that would include counter-speech, demonstration, petition, boycott, shaming and shunning - and any other methods available to me - as a private citizen. But I am NOT interested in employing the power of the government, or law - to impose constraints on ideas or speech that I oppose. That's the line.
So go ahead and organize, and network, and educate, and rally and oppose (at the top of your lungs) - but keep Uncle Sam out of it. I think Fox is every bit as ugly as everybody else on this page. But I don't think we should be employing the law to muzzle or shut them down.