If you’re asking if I have an account at the blog from which I posted the link, no. It’s a blogger blog, and depending upon who owns a blogger blog, it varies as to who can post a comment there. This blogger apparently has it open to anyone to post at this point, though someone posted a comment there earlier today which the owner immediately deleted.
The owner of that blog stated that no debate on this post is welcome. So if someone wants to post a different opinion than hers, it will likely be deleted.
Free speech. Heh.
You said — “Free speech. Heh.”
The idea of “so-called” — Free Speech — has never extended to places like blogs or even Free Republic. In fact “free speech” is very limited in the “real world” context (in practice).
It doesn’t exist here and it doesn’t exist on other blogs and it doesn’t exist in newspapers and it doesn’t exist in television and it doesn’t exist in radio — in that I can insert my own type of “speech” into “any venue” that I choose to do so. Any of those “venues” can choose to “cut out” my own type of “speech” if they choose to do so — and pretty much 100% of the time, they *do choose to do so* (i.e., cut off my speech if they don’t like it...).
I may be able to “start another venue” — depending on my abilities and finances, but that’s about it. And in the “real world” (as we “walk around in real life”) — even that “free speech” is *very limited* to certain “cordoned off areas”... (i.e., only allowed in certain “physical spaces” predetermined by certain authorities...).