…and the lesson of Robespierre:
Once we stop treating the Internet as just a medium like newsprint and start treating Internet hosting companies as publishers, we make them vulnerable to oppressors and we can be sure that some of them will not have what we see as the “public good” in mind.
This is the lesson of Robespierre: once you establish that something may be done for you, you establish that it can be done to you.
Similarly, as Barry Goldwater and others have said, a government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it all away.
Bad link. s/-thea-/-the-/
Re the Goldwater quote, I’ve hit “liberal” statists with that quote to get a rebuttal or a reaction, and they’ve all waffled. Once I ran it by one of the people who, along with Baghdad Jim, used to be one of our two Resident State-shtuppers. His lofty reaction: “I don’t deal with bumper-sticker slogans.” Translation: “I’ve got nothing.”
“His lofty reaction:’ I don’t deal with bumper-sticker slogans.'”
Since when does a left/liberal/progressive not decorate their car with bumper-sticker slogan?
Those are for signaling their moral superiority. You’re not supposed to make them defend it, you cretin.