Blogging With Risk
There is currently a human rights trial happening in Vancouver, British Columbia with the subject being a hate crime.
Will bloggers who write about these things also end up in front of the tribunal?
I link you to this .
We don't always have to agree with everything that is written but I believe that we must guard against the loss of freedom of speech. The man who is at the centre of this complaint is Mark Steyn who wrote a book, of which an excerpt was printed in Macleans magazine. I don't particularly like this writer but taking away his freedom of speech is wrong.
posted by Rositta @ Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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Edited because obviously, my blood sugar is too low to think:
Silence is not always golden. The freedom to speak our minds is a right we should all cherish and protect.
I read Mark Steyn's book excerpt. It is food for thought.
rudee, you are right, we must cherish freedom of speech. There are days I wish my parents had emigrated to America instead of Canada.
And vice versa Rositta.
I guess the grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence...ciao
I think we will be seeing more and more of this as people blog. We had a situation with the medical blogs, and now in our local paper, they've been threating any one who teaches and keeps a blog that they will lose their jobs. Freedom of speech may be going by the wayside.
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