Blogging and Freedom of Speech
The recent charges by the authorities on several bloggers here, to say the least, has been of concern - especially to the blogosphere and issues on freedom of speech. But let me just offer some words against those who rant and rave online - without any substance to guide their discourse.
jksadhfjhdlfash - now this is freedom of expression for you. If you are scratching your head, then you obviously aren't as consistent as you think you are. Why do i say so? Simple - if you really believe in a laissez-faire form of freedom, then that very nature of freedom has to presume that even linguistic restrictions do not apply online. In other words, you do not live by any rules - absurdity is the name of the game, my friend. Why bother to be coherent in the first place?
But if you agree with me that the rules of language in itself - presupposes that some form of regulation is in place - then what you are saying is that there is no such thing as "absolute freedom of expression" - and that all you are saying is that you disagree with whatever you are disagreeing with (at least that's intellectually more honest).
The next time I see or hear someone advocating freedom of expression without much consideration as to what this term means, I'm gonna get really angry...
jksadhfjhdlfash - now this is freedom of expression for you. If you are scratching your head, then you obviously aren't as consistent as you think you are. Why do i say so? Simple - if you really believe in a laissez-faire form of freedom, then that very nature of freedom has to presume that even linguistic restrictions do not apply online. In other words, you do not live by any rules - absurdity is the name of the game, my friend. Why bother to be coherent in the first place?
But if you agree with me that the rules of language in itself - presupposes that some form of regulation is in place - then what you are saying is that there is no such thing as "absolute freedom of expression" - and that all you are saying is that you disagree with whatever you are disagreeing with (at least that's intellectually more honest).
The next time I see or hear someone advocating freedom of expression without much consideration as to what this term means, I'm gonna get really angry...
posted by Benjamin Ho at
6:22 PM
2 Comments:
hi...just had to repay the compliment...and i think your point is invalid the minute i decide to have freedom of speech?...because then the only restriction would be coherent speech right?
the point i wanted to make is that: there is no such thing as absolute freedom - and instead of advocating freedom as "the ability to do anything that I want to do", a more apt definition would be the "freedom not to do the things that I do not want to do"-
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