'Yes to Freedom'

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What's your opinion of the following Web site's efforts and goals?  Please check it out and let me know.

Yes to Freedom
Informal anti-censorship Non-Profit Organisation (NPO).

I believe in artistic freedom and am opposed to censorship.  Consequently I support that site's broad intentions, even though I'm not a fan of its narrower foci.



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[NarutakiTwinsRule]

try campaignforliberty.com

if you're a roots activist.

[Flyvåpnet]

Thanks, NTR, but no thanks.  Libertarian Party politics aren't my cup of tea.  One of my classmates at the University of Oregon School of Journalism was Tonie Nathan, one of the Libertarian Party's founders and that party's perennial vice-presidential candidate back in the day.  We spent many hours talking about things, political and otherwise.  I liked Tonie, but I never cared for her politics.



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[NarutakiTwinsRule]

Mm, I'm just a political antibody.
you can't discuss politics with me, everything will go awry.
I know what filibustering is, and I could probably break the record for it.

Just saying, but I can also say that China is going to kill America.

[Flyvåpnet]

I'd better get ready, then, in case Chinese armed forces occupy the U.S.  Let's see:  oh, I regularly patronize the nearby Chinese restaurant; I used to be good at using chopsticks, but I'd better start using them again; I used to have a copy of Mao Zedong's "little red book" Quotations from Chairman Mao, but I loaned it out and that was that; I posted a "Deviation" at deviantART featuring Charlie Chan; at least half of the "stuff" I've accumulated was made in China....



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[NarutakiTwinsRule]

hopefully you'll survive to be in the Chinese favor,

operation Anchorage, go!

[Silent K]

I'm all for freedom of speech and I don't see how other people can ban eroge w/o having to ban general pornography as well. Also, I assume if you ban lolicon hentai stuff, it's just going to migrate underground and not go away. People who wanna get it will seek it out, and I doubt there are that many people who have become pedophiles because of a manga they read.

Anyway, this might be nitpicking, but isn't this statement they provide oversimplifying things a bit?

Fiction does not generate action; action generates fiction

couldn't you extrapolate that to mean literature/art has no meaning, or that art has no power to mobilize/inspire individuals?

[Flyvåpnet]

Silent K, is that trenchant statement from the Yes to Freedom site?  I certainly don't agree with it; but, as I mentioned, I support that site's general intentions to fight against censorship of art, but there are some lesser goals - goals within goals - which I'm not enthusiastic about.  In the event, censorship of art seems just plain wrong to me.  It's right up there on my Wrong list with book burning and (back in the day) record smashing.



Anyway, the "art imitates life" and "life imitates art" positions both seem bogus to me.  I don't think artists are imitating anything, nor do I believe life is an imitation of something.  In my view, art is a reflection of life and life encompasses art.  It's an interaction, not an imitation.



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