Xanthippa's Chamberpot

The full article is at Electronic Frontier Foundation:

‘ Moreover, criminalizing, or even trying to criminalize a neutral communications service like Twitter would set a dangerous precedent –like criminalizing pens and pencils or typewriters and computers based on what people choose to say when using them.’

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‘Twitter is right to resist.  If the U.S. were to pressure Twitter to censor tweets by organizations it opposes, even those on the terrorist lists, it would join the ranks of countries like India, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Syria, Uzbekistan, all of which have censored online speech in the name of “national security.”  And it would be even worse if Twitter were to undertake its own censorship regime, which would have to be based upon its own investigations or relying on the investigations of others that certain account holders were, in fact, terrorists.’

This is the true test of our committment to the freedom of speech:  do we deny it to those who are despicable scum?

Who is to know if you yourself will, one day, be defined to be ‘despicable scum’ by the powers that be?

Some things are non-negotiable.

Freedom of speech is one of these non-negotiables!