...considering that Y!A is being taken over by the humourless, left-wing tendencies of the 'troll patrol'?
2007-08-28 06:54:25 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Other than the US. Sorry, I should have clarified! I'm in the UK so we don't have the 'privilege' of the first amendment. I wish we did!
2007-08-28 07:01:57 · update #1
By 'free speech', I mean everything. There are always things we don't like other people to talk about i.e. killing, pornography, etc. However, if we start restricting what one persons says because someone else doesn't like it, the knock-on effect will never end.
Also, if we allow people to talk about even controversial subject matter, it is not kept 'underground'. If it is kept underground, we can never known that a certain topic is an issue/problem.
2007-08-28 07:11:17 · update #2
trend_kill 17 - I hope the above has answered your question.
Ben_H - I am referring to the left in the UK (Labour) who are slowly making the UK more of a totalitarian state than a democracy. Although, to be fair, nowadays 'free speech' seems to be a very Libertarian concept!
2007-08-28 07:14:12 · update #3
The problem with freedom of speech is that written conversation is subject to censorship controls. This is now being applied, under rules brought in under political correctness, to verbal communications as well.
The problem with censorship is that it tends to inhibit honesty and can also have a seriously negative effect on the health and wellbeing of a nation. Look at the now defunct USSR for proof of that.
The problem with honesty is that if it is inhibited in any way then law cannot function to its full extent.
The problem with law being hamstrung is that society begins to break down and the result is anarchy.
The problem with anarchy is that no-one is able to speak an honest warning against it because the law cannot allow the warning to be spoken as it would infringe the rules of political correctness. Therefore the law has no option but to apply censorship to the warning by stifling freedom of speech.
However, stifling the views of another under an anarchist system (contradiction in terms there!) would put the law in breach of its own tenets.
Sounds ridiculous? This is where political correctness is taking us folks.
2007-08-28 11:46:07 · answer #1 · answered by HUNNYMONSTA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo Answers should allow you to have free speech, but I don't want to post a question or read someone elses answer talking about killing an innocent children , or pornographic answers. If you are giving a real opinion then fine, but horrible mean things such as killing, smoothering an innocent child then I do believe people should step in and ask those uncaring ignorant people to leave Yahoo Answers.
2007-08-28 07:03:41 · answer #2 · answered by Mommy2 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am going to answer ur question with a question...what type of free speech do want exactly....till you can site an example of the type of speech that you feel is wrongly being snuffed out by the gov't than this ? is to wide and open to diff interpretations and no real good answers....
2007-08-28 07:05:53 · answer #3 · answered by trendkill_17 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
See The Campaign Against Political Correctness @ http://www.capc.co.uk + another site at http://www.politicallyincorrect.me.uk
Also Jeremy Clarkson's newspaper/magazine articles + appearances on TOP GEAR...... never seems all that bothered about who he upsets. :-)
2007-08-28 09:20:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there's no such thing as free speech. if there was then people would get away with saying racist words and get no controversy from it.
plus, i'd think before blaming left-wingers for it. us left-wingers want as much freedom under the law as possible so how can it be our fault? it's the conservatives' fault for being so sensitive
edit: Labour aren't left-wing. they're extremists and there's not much difference between left-wing and right-wing extremism. i think of them as right-wingers though
2007-08-28 07:05:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
In your own home. I am certain that YA is making us follow the user guidelines meant for china.
2007-08-28 07:00:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is plenty of free speech allowed in the USA. I do not understand the cry of "free speech" on a privately own message board \ community \ blog or whatever you want to call it. They own it; they don't have to let you post questions or let me post answers. It is their right to do with it what they want....and I've complained plenty about how they do it.
2007-08-28 06:59:06 · answer #7 · answered by netjr 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Hyde Park Corner, Sunday morning be there or be square.
2007-08-28 07:01:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
lol how about a "free speech zone"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
Check out your first amendment at work!
2007-08-28 06:58:14 · answer #9 · answered by Kevy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free speech is free to say. not free to have excepted>>??
2007-08-28 06:59:55 · answer #10 · answered by 45 auto 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋