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mindmetoo
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 Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| EFLtrainer wrote: |
| I do not think one should be able to say such a thing and suffer no consequence. By what rights does he call them w h o r e s? He has no standing on that. He has no defense. Defamation DOES apply, I'd think. Not a lawyer, though. And, really, don't give a *beep* about the issue beyond whether it was a free speech issue or not, so take it up with someone else. |
If you notice, he did suffer consequences. The consequences of the free market. Advertisers pulled out. He lost both his jobs. Why do we need government intervention when if a person is truly offensive, people have the option to shun him? Freedom is the freedom to be stupid. |
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