“Nuke That Rascal’s Website”
11th January 2018
Joe Bob Briggs tries to sort things out.
Every day somebody howls for the shutdown of a website, the squelching of a Twitter account, the nuking of a Facebook page, the removal of a video or a screed or a manifesto, all in the name of…uh…well, it depends, but mostly in the name of saving the world.
We’ve become a nation of scolds and censors and digital night-riders, trying to get people removed from the internet.
Many of these modern-day bowdlerizers are the same people crowing about “net neutrality,” whatever that is (and believe me, I’ve tried to figure it out), and demanding that Disney give up the copyright to Mickey Mouse because, after all, everything should be free and available and easy to find.
Well, everything except hate speech. Whatever that is.