A 'live' show is EITHER alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to USE their remote or TiVo. PARENTS are responsible or they are not.

Today it is becoming HARDER to SPEAK out, with the inception of the PATRIOT ACT, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

The Right isn't VIOLENT; the LEFT is. By allowing these sociopaths to SHUT down free speech with violence, you are all but demanding a war.

It isn't only in the name of FREE speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I SAY itchy polemicist promoting thought, not itchy ideologue promoting violence - but because provocation is indispensable to the workings of a sound, CREATIVE CULTURE.

Advocates of 'free speech' OFTEN repeat the mantra that the best response to BAD speech is more and BETTER speech, not the suppression of the bad STUFF.

While everyone has FIRST Amendment rights to free SPEECH, the LAW strictly prohibits attorneys from releasing confidential and privileged INFORMATION.

I always KNEW it'd be difficult to balance the RIGHT of PRIVACY and the right of free speech. I THINK that is a tension that we've seen in court case after court case and LAW after law. And we always strive to find that right balance.

Obama will win the 2012 election, THANKS in PART to the tech COMMUNITY rallying behind him due to issues LIKE SOPA, visas, and free speech.

Net NEUTRALITY was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for ECONOMIC reasons and free SPEECH reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that INTERNET freedom was PROTECTED.

If you have EVER READ my columns, you know how IMPORTANT free speech is to me... and how important it should be to EVERYONE.