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"1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They're also entitled to express them online. 2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don't like. 3. Sometimes those opinions won't be very nice. 4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) assholes. 5. However, if your solution to this "problem" is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are a bigger asshole. 6. You may also be twelve. 7. You are not responsible for anyone else's actions or karma, but you are responsible for your own. 8. So leave them alone and go about your own life."
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freedom-of-opinion
reviewers
reviewing
opinions
freedom-of-expression
freedom-of-speech
reviews
bullying
readers
censorship
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John Scalzi |
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The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
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freedom-of-expression
freedom-of-choice
freedom-of-speech
weapon
freedom-of-thought
weapons
protest
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the frontiers of freedom of expression or... ...demonstrating that there should be no limit on subject matter.
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Anthony Burgess |
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was very present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.
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beauty-in-literature
freedom-of-expression
freedom-of-speech
freedom-of-thought
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Frederick Douglass |
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"Two things form the bedrock of any open society -- freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country." [
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politics
open-society
rule-of-law
freedom-of-expression
freedom-of-speech
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Salman Rushdie |
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"Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. 'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect." [
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criticism
freedom
hebdo
freedom-of-expression
totalitarianism
terrorism
orthodoxy
satire
islam
free-speech
paris
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Salman Rushdie |
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What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
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god
mohammed-cartoons
freedom-of-expression
orthodoxy
satire
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