In a nutshell, here's what you should know: A tech blogger called Kathy Sierra started receiving death threats and having her visage Photoshopped in all sorts of crude but inventive ways. She subsequently pulled out of a speaking engagement (or maybe it was a few) for fear that her cat-callers and possibly lethal enemies might turn up. This led to a widespread moratorium on blogging in some quarters, the goal being to go mute in solidarity with Sierra. Now there's a whole debate brewing about the absence of civility in internet discourse and what, if anything, should be done about it. Should sites regulate language and hall-monitor user comment threads? Or is part of the charm of this anarchic, binary universe that anything goes, and you can get away with saying what you'd never, ever say if you had a pair of eyes to look into, or, you know, a fist to avoid meeting.
Andrew Sullivan read the following pathetic quote from some fuckwit (sorry: moderately delusional person) called Tim O'Reilly and rightly took him to task for endorsing censorship:
"That is one of the mistakes a lot of people make — believing that uncensored speech is the most free, when in fact, managed civil dialogue is actually the freer speech. Free speech is enhanced by civility," – Tim O'Reilly, a person the blog-clueless NYT deems to be relevant to the blogosphere.
Sorry, Tim, but "managed civil dialogue" may be better in your enlightened eyes than, er, free speech, but it sure isn't freer. You can choose or not choose to have comments sections; you can already monitor such sections, if you so choose. But the blogosphere is about freedom – not codes of conduct on sites for free exchange of views. Now go back under the rock whence some clueless reporter from the NYT discovered you.
Whoo-doggy, the backlash Sully has endured.
As someone who takes his Bloggy Lordship to task on an almost weekly basis (more in sorrow than in anger, rest assured), I feel obliged to give credit where it's due. Andrew is right. Free speech is universal, or it is nothing at all.
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