My work has been shut down several times by ISPs and groups who have opposed our content.
I don't rant or rabble rouse about "my cause" when this happens. I move to another venue.
I also teach art. I advise students that the attitudes they bring with them regarding "free expression" are typically infantile, self-serving, disrespectful of others, antisocial, unrealistic, and not in their best interest. The reason they bring these simplistic attitudes with them into their "careers" as working artists is because of their totally egoistic understanding of the notion of "free expression" and also because the mass media teaches them that "artists" are a certain type of person and depicts them as infantile, self-serving, disrespectful of others, antisocial, and unrealistic. There's no need to teach them these ideas any further, as they are already filled with them. There is a need, as I see it, to talk to them about a more personally and socially responsible way of thinking about "free expression."
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