Don't surrender.

[vakkotaur]

The only thing worse than having a right forcibly removed, is willingly giving it up. And sadly, but unsurprisingly, it looks like Europe is looking to do just that. There is a difference between prudence and surrender. Note this is not individual newspapers pondering this, as bad as that is, but the EU thinking of starting down the road to suppressing its own press.

That Yemen and Malaysia ban publication is pretty much expected. That any European country even considers it is sorely disappointing. I'm less than thrilled with much of the U.S. media and with the rather frail response of the U.S. government itself, too. Isn't freedom of speech and expression supposed to be important? Hasn't it been said that nobody has a right not to offended? The belief seems to fading and that's what really scares me.

Comments

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Freedom of speech and expression is NOT valued by the current regime in the US, no. That has been clear for quite a while, actually. They do not like, and do their best to harrass and suppress speech which is directly critical of them and their policies.

[yakko.livejournal.com]

I'd like to think that a non-zero number of people in our government DO care about freedom of speech, even if said freedom enables their detractors to heckle them. But yeah, it seems like disagreement isn't very popular in the current administration.