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The Daily Stern

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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.

2 responses to “The Daily Stern”

  1. Trump Avatar
    Trump

    Funny how people railing against “media consolidation” never had a word to say when it was ABC merging with everything, or CBS/Viacom or AOL/Timewarner.
    Hypocracy, thy name is DEMOCRAT

  2. Andy Freeman Avatar
    Andy Freeman

    What about speech by me? You know, the political speech by not-media that media types typically argue for restricting.
    If I can afford a bucket of ink, why don’t I have the same rights as the NYT?
    When I see you folks get as upset about the FEC as you do about the FCC, I’ll believe that you care about free speech. Until then, you’re just whining that you’re not getting enough special privs.