[humblegunner]

I support someones right to say and write what they want to say and write

And if a bunch of bloggers in your town get mad at you and
write about how you are a syphilitic pedophile who eats puppies?

You support that?

True or not, it's free speech for bloggers, right?

Unsupervised, irresponsible, free-wheeling, no training-or-investment bloggers.

Let's not hold any of the "New Media" accountable.

[allmendream]

You have lost it if you think the two are even slightly equitable. He ran a business and she should be free to say what she thought about the conduct of his business - she didn't say he put syphilitic children and puppies in his noodles - she said their food was too salty.

If I ran a business in a free nation and someone wrote about it things I didn't like and didn't think were true - I would have options to show that they were wrong and I was correct.

Having them jailed is not one of those options, in a free society.

Maybe you don't like freedom of speech. Maybe your crusade against bloggers who excerpt their own lame posts (which I support BTW) has warped your perspective.