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Pirate Bay Launches Free Speech Blog
Chris Blanc writes "In their ever continuing battle to 'free the Internet', The Pirate Bay has now launched an uncensored blogging service, called Baywords. The service is intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write whatever they want."
Okay, so you can announce to the world how you think everyone should hate *insertminoritygrouphere*, but seriously, who gives a flying fuck? That sort of crap is boring these days. The vast majority of people just don't take bigots seriously anymore because they are really just illustrating their own ignorance and end up alienating themselves. For an example, you just have to look at the reaction Mel Gibson got to his drunken comments about jews.
Anyway, nearlyfreespeech guidelines say: You may not upload, publish, or otherwise use the Services to make available any Content that:
* violates the laws of the United States of America; or
* you are contractually prohibited from distributing; or
* is tortious under the laws of the United States of America; or
* your distribution of which infringes upon the intellectual property rights of others; or
* you otherwise do not have the legal right to distribute. This means that you can't post anything that the US corporate-conglomerate/government has deemed inappropriate. This includes source code for software to watch DVDs on linux, or even advertisements for Cuban holidays for fucks sake!
But it's okay! you're allowed to say you hate a minority group!!
All this bleating about how the US respects free speech is fucking pathetic.
For a slightly related press-freedom world ranking, see here.