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Finally someone who gets it. Free speech isn't about some abstract right that you can only technically exercise. Everyone also has the right to associate with w
by anaphor 13y ago
Finally someone who gets it. Free speech isn't about some abstract right that you can only technically exercise. Everyone also has the right to associate with whoever they chose. But launching public campaigns designed to restrict the speech of someone is not okay in my view, it's like a form of harrassment I think. Launching campaigns to _discredit their ideas_ however, is better I think. Also just launching a campaign to publicize their views is fine, as long as they're backed up with evidence (which they are in this case).
I may be on the wrong side of this issue but I refuse to take part in boycotts because I think they're ineffective and just harmful, unless of course the product itself is harming people in some way.
- nollidge 13y agoNo, neither of you get it. All you have is the right to speech free from governmental impedance; you do not have any sort of right to speech free from civil consequences. Boycotts are a form of free speech too, you know. How come you're not so antsy to defend those rights, I wonder?
- anaphor 13y agoWhile it may not technically be a violation of laws protecting freedom of speech, consider for example... - Organizing a group of bookstores to stop selling a certain book because you find it offensive for any reason - Using your privileged position at say, a conference, to get other speakers removed because you dislike them - as a web service provider, removing a website about a topic you find offensive None of these have anything to do with the government making a law that infringes on free speech. If they don't violate laws protecting free speech then they certainly piss all over the spirit of it. Or are they only bad when the speech is the "right" kind of speech? Also as I said elsewhere in the thread, most of the time I find boycotts ineffective, especially when it would only jurt innocent people and when the change it creates is merely cosmetic. You're certainly free to boycott anything you wish, and to ask others to boycott, but you can't expect everyone to agree it's a good idea.
- joshlegs 13y agoboycotts are fine. the problem is that people are taking personal issues and making them into corporate issues, and that's what is not OK. a person's private life and professional life are SEPARATE. You shouldn't punish Mozilla employees for things the person at the helm does IN HIS PRIVATE LIFE