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because the things we say online are more like thoughts in ones head than words spoken out loud.
by exit 16y ago
because the things we say online are more like thoughts in ones head than words spoken out loud.
- jhancock 16y agoI'm not sure the legal structure in China or the U.S. has caught up with your position on this. You can be certain the U.S. Secret Service chases down perceived threats from online and offline comments fairly regularly. This is the problem: Too much change, too fast. Much of what we say online today was prohibited to do so on the only available broadcast mechanisms in the U.S. as recently as mid-1970s. Even once the laws and regulators started to relax it took some time as the contents providers pushed boundaries. Its only been in the last 20 years that people could "broadcast themselves". China wrote its first laws to cover internet content less than 10 years ago. This is very new territory.
- SimonPStevens 16y agoI think people need to start to take more responsibility for what they say online. It's philosophies like this that cause people to get into trouble over inappropriate comments on facebook/twitter. Online is far more public that just vocalising something out loud. Online is stored indefinitely. Online is searchable. Online is global. I'm not saying this case deserved any punishment (I favour freedom of speech), but people need to be aware that what they say online is public. If you wouldn't happily say it in public, don't type it online.