the one that got away

I had written a decent post about freedom of speech and that it is mostly a facade, but even that facade is wonderful… but the post got lost in the ether (more accuratly, my computer rebooted for unknown reasons).

Anyway, here are the news articles prompting the previous post:

• Secret government or a free press?{#r-1_0}
• “flag desecration is an unacceptable form of political protest” — U.S. SEN. BILL FRIST » Senate Rejects Flag Desecration Amendment

And I ended up reading a chain of wikipedia articles which went something like:

• Free speech

• Marketplace of ideas

• Elsebeth Baumgartner

• 2005 amendment to the Finnish Copyright Act and Penal Code

• Holocaust denial

• Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 << very informative >>

• Pillar of Shame