[-empyre-] VII: free speech and its ends

[Rob Myers]

On 10/11/2012 06:38 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
> in both cases, people feel their areas are their 'homes,' and that
> implies one might do what one wants. Fb is a corporate state; email
> lists are TAZ (temporary autonomous zones), very different, but people
> feel comfortable in both -

Yes that's true. The difference is the source of the coercion: the state 
in the former example, private individuals in the latter. They don't 
compare.

Facebook is an interesting overlap, but the specific examples I have in 
mind are in the UK where people are now being prosecuted for writing the 
wrong thing online (and I am not using this as a euphemism for "making 
threats" or "organizing riots").

I'm just reading the TAZ book...

- Rob.