You know, I used to like Bill O'Reilly. But, that was before I found weblogs. I didn't realize how much O'Reilly was against free speech. I mean, look at his quote:
O'REILLY: But the other thing is that the court system in this country does not protect anybody in the public arena. You -- look, with the rise of the Internet -- you see the vile stuff on the Internet? You could say anything you want about anybody.
And it just goes unchecked. Shouldn't there be a check and balance in this?
You don't think that I can say anything about anybody in real life? All the internet provides is A) anonymity and B) a few more people who listen. At the moment, it's not many.
It frustrating to see someone who is (portrayed as) basically conservative (with a few twists) be so stupid as to think regulation is going to help anything!
From his guest:
One of the hardest parts of being at a university is constantly telling students anything you read on the Internet is worthless, it's not factual.
Anything, huh? It's got to be at least as accurate as the NYTimes. How about government websites? Are they accurate? Newspaper websites? Libraries of e-books? I mean, at least the TV Guide website is pretty accurate in its listings. Don't be giving me this lie about nothing accurate is on the internet.
Posted by Blog Jones at August 30, 2003 11:33 PM