HawaiiReporter Case to Test Free Speech Rights

[sophielynette]

Re: HawaiiReporter Case to Test Free Speech Rights

There is an argument that you can't trust anything published on the internet because anyone can put something up on the internet.

The thing I think a lot of people don't realize is that anyone can publish a book/newspaper/what have you. Self-publishing, while not always cost effective, is no way confined only to the 'qualified'. Just because it's in a book doesn't make it legitimate, just as something doesn't lose its legitimacy automatically for being published on the internet.

[Creative-1]

Re: HawaiiReporter Case to Test Free Speech Rights

There is an argument that you can't trust anything published on the internet because anyone can put something up on the internet.

The thing I think a lot of people don't realize is that anyone can publish a book/newspaper/what have you. Self-publishing, while not always cost effective, is no way confined only to the 'qualified'. Just because it's in a book doesn't make it legitimate, just as something doesn't lose its legitimacy automatically for being published on the internet.

From the word "author" we get "authority!"

[poinographer]

Re: HawaiiReporter Case to Test Free Speech Rights

From the word "author" we get "authority!"

...and, in turn, the word "author" came from Latin, where it simply meant "creator." After all, "authors" write fiction, too.

[tutusue]

Re: HawaiiReporter Case to Test Free Speech Rights

[...]Just because it's in a book doesn't make it legitimate, [...]

Heh! Just take a look at all those diet books on the market...and so many of them a financial success for the authors!

[Creative-1]

Re: HawaiiReporter Case to Test Free Speech Rights

Heh! Just take a look at all those diet books on the market...and so many of them a financial success for the authors!

Mark Twain cautioned people about reading health books. You may die from a mis-print, he said.

[ifcancan]

Re: HawaiiReporter Case to Test Free Speech Rights

This issue will be discussed tomorrow night on PBS at around 7:30. The host is Dan Boylan, who is pretty good at monitoring such topics.