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Offence, the Net and the Law

March 17, 2010 – 5:15 pm

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” (Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer of Voltaire) Disapproving of what someone says but defending their right to say it is sometimes very hard. It sounds fine in principle…until you see something that is really challenging to your ideas [...]

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Word, Pat

February 8, 2010 – 7:18 am

You may not agree with everything notable atheist and skeptic Pat Condell says, but it needs to be said all the same. You may not like Geert Wilders much, either, but this is appalling. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ZUZ9CPZII&feature=topvideos[/youtube] More (mainly in Dutch, alas) here.

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Political correctness on campus

January 21, 2010 – 8:36 pm

Via a friend, I came across this interesting piece on political correctness on US university campuses. The author starts out with a salutary tale: In 2007 a student working his way through college was found guilty of racial harassment for reading a book in public. Some of his co-workers had been offended by the book’s [...]

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