Tag: communication

Free Speech or Throwing Stones

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Blogs are today’s bulletin boards. Treat readers respectfully. Think about what comments you post. Today, I shut down free speech. Most of the people who come here don’t comment. The ones who do are invariably polite. They may disagree but they disagree with no derisive names and they haven’t made unsubstantiated claims against a person–until today. I received this comment

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Don't Read Huck Finn or Should Anonymous Bloggers be Taken Seriously?

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Samuel Clemens AKA Mark Twain Just recently I read here about a local reporter’s less than flattering view on blogs. The title of her story, “Indecent Expression” tells a great deal about her slant on one of my favorite forms of communication. She argues that blogs “are dangerous.” She rightly points out the problems with unsigned comments and anonymous blogs

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