rou’s Comments

• Jan 24th, 2018 @ 5:17pm

  Re: Great piece; here are a few observations

  on Censorship By Weaponizing Free Speech: Rethinking How The Marketplace Of Ideas Works
  [quote]1. Something I've said for years is that spam (and other related forms of abuse) are not speech, just as a brick with an attached note thrown through a window is not publication.[/quote]
  
  I don't think that's really a useful way to see things. It just dodges the question of what reasonable limits we should accept on free speech by redefining whatever's outside those limits as "not speech."
• Jan 17th, 2018 @ 7:39pm

  Re: just whine and cry more loudly

  on Community Backlash Leads Adult Diaper Company To Drop Its Trademark Application for 'ABDL'
  Why would you need to trademark a phone number, anyway? It's not like your competition's going to use your phone number in their advertising.