RE: If Only The Romans
December 27, 2014 at 2:45 pm
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2014 at 2:47 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(December 27, 2014 at 2:21 pm)Chuck Wrote: To the objection of potential for abuse, yes, there is. But it is greater, certain, and continuous abuse to allow the unqualified an equal voice as the qualified.
The idea that some people are "qualified" to determine what is and isn't acceptable speech is far, far too authoritarian for my taste. Where such a design has been adopted, the abuses far outweigh anything seen in a country where free speech allows the polity to warn of and gather against such abuses.
Thanks, but no thanks. History shows that despots remove free speech first for what I hope are obvious reasons.