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Online Free Speech?
Replies: 7 — Last Post Jan. 8 12:00pm by Maxxie
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Choice Votes Percent  
Complete free speech, unrestricted. 9 56%
Free speech on most sites, some control on potentially damaging ones. 2 12%
Loosely controlled free speech on all sites. 1 6%
Controlled speech on all sites. 0 0%
Other options: explain. 4 25%
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/08/MNN81559L2.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea" target="_top">http://http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/08/MNN81559L2.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea

A Yelp user is being sued for a negative review on a business. The Internet is a great vehicle to exercise free speech, but isn't there also negative effects of free speech? As people do on sites, including this one, much unrestricted negativity is expressed. Sometimes it's not simply to be honest, but sometimes its to defame and ruin reputations through not only speaking opinions but speaking in absolutes as if the person's opinion is not debatable. I think it's different for those who only express and are not expressed upon. How much free speech should people have really?

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Free speech on most sites, some control on potentially damaging ones.

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completely free, its america and the iternet is ours so fuck them

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Free speech should be absolute. "Negativity" is a good thing.
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Quote: from CuntFace at 11:34 am on Jan. 8, 2009
completely free, its america and the iternet is ours so fuck them

Internet has no national borders, though, it's on the World Wide Web, hence the www dot.

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Quote: from Parsine at 11:36 am on Jan. 8, 2009
Free speech should be absolute. "Negativity" is a good thing.

Yelp is a open review site. Negativity is a good thing at times, but what about unwarranted and unbacked negativity with influence?

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Quote: from runthespread at 11:49 am on Jan. 8, 2009
Quote: from Parsine at 11:36 am on Jan. 8, 2009
Free speech should be absolute. "Negativity" is a good thing.

Yelp is a open review site. Negativity is a good thing at times, but what about unwarranted and unbacked negativity with influence?


I don't want my government to be judging whether criticism is "warranted" or not.
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It's either Free Speech or it isn't - Any restrictions to it means it's no longer Free Speech.
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