Hatred of Censorship and Right to Sing Whatever They Want
Of course, that's a brutally hard problem because there is no clear, workable solution. It's very useful to keep control over highly offensive materials, but there's no clear demarcation between that point and sending a hit man after Salman Rushdie. So we constantly have to argue where the boundary should be, and cultures push the boundary back and forth in various places at various times. The pushing is the process by which we settle the boundary (at this time and place). And the pushing has to be hard, because otherwise we couldn't say anything that annoyed any single person.
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Date: 2012-09-18 04:08 am (UTC)Of course, that's a brutally hard problem because there is no clear, workable solution. It's very useful to keep control over highly offensive materials, but there's no clear demarcation between that point and sending a hit man after Salman Rushdie. So we constantly have to argue where the boundary should be, and cultures push the boundary back and forth in various places at various times. The pushing is the process by which we settle the boundary (at this time and place). And the pushing has to be hard, because otherwise we couldn't say anything that annoyed any single person.