{"id":24196,"date":"2014-09-04T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T05:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24196"},"modified":"2014-09-03T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T21:22:30","slug":"qotd-freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/qotd-freedom-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Freedom of speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve always been in favor of freedom of expression, but lately I&#8217;ve become a free-speech absolutist. It takes all sorts to make a world and I&#8217;ve met a lot of them over the years, and I can stand pretty much anything anyone says about anything \u2014 until someone says to me, &#8220;You can&#8217;t say that.&#8221; At which point my inclination is to punch his lights out. I do this not just because I&#8217;m a violent psychopath with a hair-trigger temper, but to make the important point that in societies where you&#8217;re not free to speak your mind \u2014 to argue and debate \u2014 the only way to express disagreement is through violence.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Steyn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/6079\/yes-we-can-say-that\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Yes, We Can (Say That)&#8221;, <em>SteynOnline<\/em><\/a>, 2014-02-08<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been in favor of freedom of expression, but lately I&#8217;ve become a free-speech absolutist. It takes all sorts to make a world and I&#8217;ve met a lot of them over the years, and I can stand pretty much anything anyone says about anything \u2014 until someone says to me, &#8220;You can&#8217;t say that.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[459,186],"class_list":["post-24196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-quotations","tag-censorship","tag-freedomofspeech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6ig","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24197,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24196\/revisions\/24197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}