you rather misunderstand my point. The thing that really outraged me is that the parent comment (which I read before reading the article) wrote: >It's going t

you rather misunderstand my point. The thing that really outraged me is that the parent comment (which I read before reading the article) wrote: >It's going to be a big stretch to call her a "protester". which is absolutely outrageous phrasing, and it happened here, on HN, not in an article comment section or youtube comments, or in some backwater county courthouse somewhere. Right here, someone says, "it's going to be a big stretch to call her a 'protestor' " as though that were any kind of crime whatsoever. Imagine if it had said nonchallantly, "It's going to be a BIG stretch to call her guilty of thinking. I checked her writing, looking through her blog and facebook, and I didn't find any contraband thoughts. If she's a criminal guilty of thinking then she's hiding it very well. To me, she seems like an actual journalists: she sat in the press conferences, wore her badge, quoted official soundbytes, and I hope got prior restraint approval from the corporations she was covering before she decided to go live with it. If they didn't like her viewpoint they should have expressed it at that point or simply asked her not to write her opinion - I'm sure she would have complied. She doesn't strike me as a criminal or thinker at all!" I'm not exaggerating. That's how bad it is to have someone here on HN write >It's going to be a big stretch to call her a "protester". It's really, really bad. We have to push back very hard against this idea here. There is absolutely nothing wrong about being a protestor. Having protestors is in a very, very real and direct sense the exact and arguably "only" thing that separates us from North Korea. (Which I just watched a documentary on.) By the way, this is despite the fact that reading Democracy Now is like reading Chomsky or, for that matter, Trotsky. I don't read Democracy Now, I don't consider it particularly objective, and I don't agree with their political views. Our country is literally, not in some metaphorical sense, founded on principles of freedom that this phrasing of calling someone a "protestor" or defending that oh no, they're not a protestor, not Amy! She's a good and loyal Citizen --- goes completely counter to.