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Strossen's speech on behalf of the ACLU at the San Diego convention is the core, book-ended by much shorter contibrutions from Gaiman and other writers - from Dave Sim before he turned out to be a misogynist, and Frank Miller before he turned out to be a bigot.
It's funny how last-century this all feels; sure, protecting freedom of speech from government interference is still an issue, including in the creative industries (just last week we had another redneck Texan legislator protesting against subversive literature in schools), but it seems to me that the debates we are now having are more often about the use of (legally protected) speech to punch down at the oppressed, and what options are open to the rest of us exercising our rights of freedom of association and freedom of speech to object to creators who choose to do that, while at the same time of course deploring acts or threats of violence by state or non-state actors.
Strossen's speech on behalf of the ACLU at the San Diego convention is the core, book-ended by much shorter contibrutions from Gaiman and other writers - from Dave Sim before he turned out to be a misogynist, and Frank Miller before he turned out to be a bigot.
It's funny how last-century this all feels; sure, protecting freedom of speech from government interference is still an issue, including in the creative industries (just last week we had another redneck Texan legislator protesting against subversive literature in schools), but it seems to me that the debates we are now having are more often about the use of (legally protected) speech to punch down at the oppressed, and what options are open to the rest of us exercising our rights of freedom of association and freedom of speech to object to creators who choose to do that, while at the same time of course deploring acts or threats of violence by state or non-state actors.
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