Assault On Free Speech

[CliveStaples]

Overzealous inference.

Really? You're antagonistic, you brag about how much you know about fair use, and you're litigious ("for the fucking fun of it").

What portion of people who have those traits are scrupulous, and what portion use litigation as a tool of intimidation?

A DMCA takedown is not incredibly litigious. It takes five minutes to handle and five minutes to abide by.

Unless they dispute it, of course. But that's the point of intimidating them, isn't it?

Anything over fair use is not protected speech. I have to deal with asshats like you all the time who think freedom of speech means freedom to steal the words of others. It means you can use your own words, not mine. I could give a shriveled up pair of monkey's balls what you think of my personality. It has no bearing whatsoever on our disagreement. However, if you want to go that road, you sound like a hopped up dickhead who is arguing the right to plagiarize others.

Ah, I see we're dealing with an internet tough guy. You don't care about my opinion--but I never said you did. Okay. Any other pointless posturing you'd like to get out of the way?

Straw man, and bizarrely so. I never claimed that protected speech covers things that go beyond fair use. I claimed that you're using the threat of litigation as a device to curtail legitimate (i.e., lawful) fair use of your speech.