On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:
> Seems to me lately that a few people outside of BP
> who are not brave or honest enough to outright
> censor speech make an end-run on those who speak
> about what they either do not like or do not
> understand by attempts to strong-arm the speaker
> into a mode of self censure and silence.
>
> I am not talking about blasphemy, irreverence,
> luridness, bad jokes, black humor or inane and
> useless chatter... but attempts at censorship of
> innocent curiosity about what we do not know and
> the desire to learn from each other and to share in
> open discourse.
Maybe I haven't been following BP closely enough, but this sounds like
it's about something very specific, and I don't have a clue what that
could be. Google and China?
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Cuyler Page wrote:
> Graffiti recently painted boldly on a public playground structure in
> Victoria, BC:
>
> "Avoid Despair"
I couldn't help but tweet that. I would have credited you, but you
don't seem to have a Twitter account.
Larry
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