Well this week John C. Dvorak coments on the loss or soon to be lost free speech.

The United States' Bill of Rights, Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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So, exactly what part of "freedom of speech" don't you understand? That's the question you have to ask the members of Congress and the President who signed into law the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. You also have to ask the courts, since they seem disinterested in real freedom of speech while simultaneously supporting pornography as somehow constituting speech. To me, speech requires vocal chords (though I'll accept written or braille words that can be read aloud by a third party). To me, this seems like a good narrow and workable definition. Meanwhile, we have yet another instance of a person merely talking aloud about copy protection, and suddenly this person is threatened with arrest for talking! What is wrong with this country that each and every citizen who sees this--allows this abomination of justice to stand? The police should never enforce this law. The District Attorney should never prosecute under this law. The courts should not command anyone to stand trial under this law.

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