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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Why do you talk about this like it is something that could actually happen, which she is the bigger threat to free speech? J.K. Rowling is a very, very rich woman whose writing is very popular, with more ability than most people to say whatever she wants, and lawyers who can use the law to silence her critics. It's like your house is on fire but you'd rather talk about the chance that a meteorite will destroy it.
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I don’t care about Rowling. She’s just a high profile example.
The point is if it can be attempted to be done to her, it can certainly savage the smaller voices of dissent:
http://www.paulgraham.com/conformism.html
And make no mistake, to argue anything against the political correctness of the day is to be a dissenter.
