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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
The use of an obscenity by a student newspaper raises certain free speech concerns, obviously. My question is: do you personally think that the right to free speech comes with the right to say "Fuck Bush" in a newspaper editorial?
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They have the right to say it. They exercised that right. They didn't get arrested for it. The first amendment remains untarnished here.
Their bosses also have the right to stop them from saying it, and the right to fire them if they do say it. Freedom of speech does not mean you get to use someone else's newspaper to say whatever you want without any response from the owner.
I don't see a problem here, save that the student "journalists" are idiots. This ad, if it were a post here, would be deleted and the poster given a stern talking to because it fails to spark even semi-intelligent discussion about the issue that was raised. In fact, the issue that was raised isn't even logical. Bush had nothing to do with the kid getting tased. If you want to write a strongly worded editorial, you should at least try to be semi intelligent about it, lest the rest of the world think you're a vacuous moron.