‘I just wanted to find out if I was pregnant,’ she said to me, recalling a disastrous day in Georgia. ‘My boss sent me there when I told her I was worried; I didn’t know any better. They kept me in there for hours, telling me all kinds of things, wouldn’t even give me a …
Tag Archives: free speech
Piquant Morays
Letters of Note: Send cask arsenic exterminate aborigines This shocking 1907 telegram was sent by a Charles Morgan to Henry Prinsep, a man seemingly based 2200km away in Perth who at the time was, surprisingly, Chief Protector of Aborigines for Western Australia. Annaham at FWD/Forward: Yeah, what *about* your free speech “rights”? Perhaps they think …
Comments and the Myth of Free Speech
Read a Czech translation of this post prepared by Vera. Recommended reading: The fiction of “free” speech and Yeah, what *about* your free speech “rights”? Comment moderation. Any website which moderates comments is familiar with the inevitable accusations that free speech rights are being violated. Lots of folks have written on this subject, very well, …