Open Debate Not Libel Threats: Harry’s Place
Here we go again. Why do these people always think that they can shut down a debate on the internet by complaining to an ISP and getting a blog deleted?
It doesn’t work. And, instead, backfires.
Had she done nothing, the fact that Jenna Delich linked to the website of a known neo-Nazi figure and former Ku Klux Klan leader would not be circulating the internet in such a massive fashion as it is.
As Harry’s Place states:
This website was taken offline as a result of a complaint to Daily.co.uk, our former DNS provider, falsely stating that we had ’slandered’ Jenna Delich. We have not slandered her. Jenna Delich circulated a link from the website of an infamous neo Nazi, to nearly 600 academics. The page in question contains clearly racist material on ’Jewish supremacism’, ’heritage’ and links to articles such as ’Is Russia the key to white survival?’
I certainly don’t agree with most stuff published on that blog, but when it comes to freedom of speech, the blogosphere must stick together. As the Voltaire quote goes: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Without freedom of speech, we have nothing. On the blogosphere or in real life.
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Well said. Nice to see a Conservative blogger getting to grips with what’s at stake here.
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