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Do you agree with the MSM that anonymous speech isn't free speech and that you have no right to anonymity when using in controversial speech?
Or do you agree with the Founding Fathers, who often used pen names and pseudonyms when publishing pamphlets that were critical or satirical of politics and events of the time?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-right-to-fre...
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/07/...
http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2017/07/11/reddit-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence_Dogood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Paper...
http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_wit_name.html
This is a question for the Politics board.
9 Answers
- J MLv 74 years ago
I think you are taking a pretty simplistic view of a complex subject. And you lack the capability to understand the complexity of the MSM report.
- Moscow MitchLv 74 years ago
We'd actually like to know who the real Nazis are. There's a historical reason for that.
- NamjodhLv 74 years ago
Anonymous is not the same as using a pseudonym or pen name, Einstein.
You need to look up the definition of "anonymous".
Also the MSM says no such thing.
- Anonymous4 years ago
Do you agree that the MSM should not print stories that they know are fake and just claim that they used an anon source?
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- Anonymous4 years ago
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from the gulag... I mean, "consequences".
- Anonymous4 years ago
People tend to discount words from those they know. Anonymous posts make you concentrate on the message. This helps change minds.
- Jeff DLv 74 years ago
LOL. Does that mean the MSM won't be using unnamed sources anymore? They seem to have no problem with anonymity when it suits them.
- Anonymous4 years ago
You have the right to write whatever you like anonymously, and I have the right to try to find out your identity and publish it, as long as I don't encourage others to harass you.
- 4 years ago
Old school liberals used to defend free speech. This younger more radical generation is trying to destroy it.,