Monday, April 05, 2010

Liberty Comics #1

Liberty Comics #1, review/article.

Are censorship issues really moot in the Internet age? I'm not so sure. Certainly they have been pushed back, but they push back too. For example Karen Fletcher, who ran a tiny web site (Red Rose or something). Granted, the site was pretty disgusting to almost anybody, containing text stories including violence to children and such. But: it was fiction. Not even any photos or illustrations. And yet the woman was arrested and got a pretty harsh sentence in a plea bargain. This is one of the best examples of how, if you really want free speech, you have to defend the indefensible. Policing fiction is policing thought. What kind of society has thought police?

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