{"id":1339,"date":"2012-09-30T19:06:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T09:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irisherself.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2012-10-14T20:10:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T09:10:55","slug":"freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/freedom-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">September 30 2012 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/politics\/the-worst-possible-option-except-20120929-26s2t.html#ixzz27wUNYDrQ\" title=\"The worst possible system, except for all the others.\" target=\"_blank\">by Annabel Crabb  | smh opinion<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brilliant write this \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Freedom of speech &#8211; it&#8217;s simple in theory, but endlessly complicated and distorted by a million other factors of politics, circumstance, or the belief that you&#8217;re restricting it for the best possible reasons.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, freedom of speech is like democracy: the worst possible system, except for all the others.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to curb freedom of speech for entirely excellent reasons are the most tempting of all: the shutting down of hate speech, for example, or the protection of society from extremes.<\/p>\n<p>Human nature is to insulate ourselves against nasty shocks. That&#8217;s why we invented insurance. But you can&#8217;t insure against genuinely irrational human evil, any more than you can against stupidity or malice.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why the bottom line on freedom of speech must always be: sometimes you just have to suck it up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/politics\/the-worst-possible-option-except-20120929-26s2t.html#ixzz27wTulLPf\" title=\"SMH Opinion\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/politics\/the-worst-possible-option-except&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nAnnabel Crabb writes for ABC Online&#8217;s The Drum. She tweets as @annabelcrabb.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 30 2012 &#8211; by Annabel Crabb | smh opinion Brilliant write this \ud83d\ude42 &#8230; Freedom of speech &#8211; it&#8217;s simple in theory, but endlessly complicated and distorted by a million other factors of politics, circumstance, or the belief that you&#8217;re restricting it for the best possible reasons. In the end, freedom of speech is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,24],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff-that-matters","tag-about-the-web-and-you-and-me-and-all","tag-civil-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}