Message Number: 349
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.)

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