| Message Number: | 341 |
| From: | Daniel Reeves <dreeves Æ umich.edu> |
| Date: | Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:15:16 -0500 (EST) |
| Subject: | Re: free speech infringement alert (fwd) |
(read from the bottom up) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: [anonymous] Subject: Re: free speech infringement alert I would be ok with sending the Nazi bit to improvetheworld, but not under my name. Anonymous would be best. [...] --- Daniel Reeves wrote: > It's a good thing I took down the Danish cartoons because you're right, > I would have been consistency-bound to post Irving's racist tracts too. > > I do strongly oppose Austria's law, on principle. > > As to why I removed the Danish cartoons, it was after Alyssa's email > about the inflammatory power of religious images which finally brought > home the point that you and others were making that nothing really good > can come from fanning those flames. (Though I'm still torn about this.) > > Do forward this on to improvetheworld if you're ok with having this > conversation become public. > > Daniel > > --- \/ FROM [anonymous] \/ --- > >> It appears as though you have already taken down the Danish cartoons. >> I'd be interested to know why--[...]. I thought you might want to know >> about an actual case of free speech censorship that took place in >> Austria. David Irving, a Holocaust denier, was sentenced to three years >> in prison under anti-Nazi laws. Since you posted the Danish cartoons >> under the banner of free speech, maybe you'd consider posting links to >> Irving's literature. Note that this should be a even stronger >> candidate under your rationale since he was not only being prevented >> from expressing a viewpoint, he is being jailed for it. >> -[anonymous] >> (Just for the record and in case there was any doubt whatsoever, I am >> not actually advocating that you associate yourself with this man--for >> obvious reasons.) -- http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves - - search://"Daniel Reeves"

