{"id":5324,"date":"2012-05-10T07:41:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T12:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2012-05-10T07:41:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T12:41:04","slug":"the-nazis-have-been-repressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/the-nazis-have-been-repressed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nazis have been Repressed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you remember the campaign to get WordPress to shut down the Nazi hate site in Greece?<\/a> <\/p>\n

Apparently, it worked. Commenters both here and at sb.com have told us that the Nazi site has been taken down. <\/p>\n

Congratulations to us!<\/p>\n

There have been complaints that we are repressing free speech. This is not true for several reasons.<\/p>\n

First, we are not violating the “Right to free speech” because there is no universal law or regulation that compels a private company based in the US (or wherever) to provide a platform to a political party in another country. <\/p>\n

Second, the reason this campaign was valid to being with is that the Nazis have violated WordPress’s terms of service.<\/strong> Really, all that had to happen is that WordPress would be notified of this, they look into it, see it is obviously true, and shut down the site. <\/p>\n

Putting a finer point on that: Demanding that WordPress keep the Nazi site up is a violation of “rights” … telling a company that their reasonable terms of service can’t be applied, suddenly and arbitrarily, to a particular group. Of Nazis.<\/p>\n

Third, They are Nazis. One could subscribe to the American Ideal that every American should agree to die on the battlefield protecting the rights of the most nefarious groups such as the KKK and Nazis and various white supremacists and so on. But, once again, this is in Greece, this is international pressure being applied, the idea that every American should die protecting the rights of Nazis is absurd. Yes, I know, once you throw the Nazi’s under the bus, you will eventually be throwing the Girl Scouts under the bus. But that is an absurd argument. We might not know to draw the line in a particular place, but we can tell on occasion that some one or some group is well beyond that line. Nazis are beyond that line. <\/p>\n

There are other reasons. Feel free to add them in the contents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you remember the campaign to get WordPress to shut down the Nazi hate site in Greece? Apparently, it worked. Commenters both here and at sb.com have told us that the Nazi site has been taken down. Congratulations to us! There have been complaints that we are repressing free speech. This is not true for … Continue reading The Nazis have been Repressed!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1nS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}