The Daily Stern
: PRESCRIPTION: Doc Searls weighs in below on censorship and speech:
“Content” from a “producer” that is “loaded” into a “channel” for “transmission” or “distribution” through a “pipe” or a “path” or a “conduit” or a “medium” to a “receiver” for an “end user” or a “consumer” can only be conceived in terms of shipping. And shipping isn’t speech. That’s why we have so little trouble rationalizing the restriction of it.
So let’s call speech what it is, whether it’s Koppel, Sinclair, Stern, Searls or Jarvis doing the speaking. *That’s* what’s protected by the First Amendment.
Otherwise we don’t stand a chance.
