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To: Avoiding_Sulla
I don't see why Savage on the right or Malveaux and Totenberg on the left should be removed from the airways. Doesn't freedom of speech mean that people CAN say crude hurtful "hateful" things without being shut up? Niether Savage's, Malveaux's or Totenberg's statements were incitements to do physical harm. Short of that it should be anything goes.
145 posted on 07/13/2003 8:03:52 AM PDT by ricpic
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To: ricpic
Doesn't freedom of speech mean that people CAN say crude hurtful "hateful" things without being shut up?

Freedom of speech means you can say what you want (short of libel or slander) and the government is prohibited by the First Amendment from stopping you. It doesn't prohibit a private entity from throwing you off it's privately owned broadcast facilities, or from you, for instance, from throwing someone out of your house for what they say. It also means that there are consequences - people angry that Savage has been fired from MSNBC are free to boycot MSNBC, and all of their corporate sponsors.

146 posted on 07/13/2003 8:10:11 AM PDT by .38sw
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