Am going to leave some quotes here from peeps much more articulate than me. I hope better sense prevails despite the collective disgust at the antics of Payal R and Kangana.
โ1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). Theyโre also entitled to express them online.
2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you donโt like.
3. Sometimes those opinions wonโt be very nice.
4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) assholes.
5. However, if your solution to this โproblemโ is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole.
6. You may also be twelve.
7. You are not responsible for anyone elseโs actions or karma, but you are responsible for your own.
8. So leave them alone and go about your own life."
[Bad Reviews: I Can Handle Them, and So Should You (Blog post, July 17, 2012)]โ
โ John Scalzi
โEveryone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.โ โ United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
โIf freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.โ โ George Washington
โWhoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.โ โ Benjamin Franklin
โGoebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If youโre really in favor of free speech, then youโre in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, youโre not in favor of free speech.โ โ Noam Chomsky
โWhat is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.โ โ Salman Rushdie
โNobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people." โ Salman Rushdie
โAll censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.โ โ George Bernard Shaw
"If youโre really in favor of free speech, then youโre in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, youโre not in favor of free speech.โ โ Noam Chomsky
โWe live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their lips, and vibrated some air. Yes, those vibrations can make us feel sad or stupid or alienated. Tough shit. That's the price of admission to the marketplace of ideas. Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know we're in one. When all the words in our public conversation are fair, good, and true, it's time to make a run for the fence.โ โ Daniel Gilbert
โThe only security of all is in a free press.โ โ Thomas Jefferson
โFreedom of speech gives us the right to offend others, whereas freedom of thought gives them the choice as to whether or not to be offended.โ โ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
โCensorship is to art as lynching is to justice.โ โ Henry Louis Gates Jr
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