Tim Blair

The link is mistyped. Use http://www.wckkkk.com.

But it wasn't about free speech; as usual the Democrats are wrong. It was about received ideas moving the mobs. Kos was a quick disappointment in the end, of course. The left wimps out.

Kos' free speech hasn't been affected. Nobody's pulled his blog or come to his door to drag him away in the middle of the night. He can blog for free like everybody else. A true democrat, you know, would not mind being one with "the people" who write for the sheer joy of expressing their views to the world at large.

This is all perfectly obvious, of course, but I wanted to state it anyway.

From Seemans website: "Very soon, Friends Of Jeff Seemann For Congress will be searching for interns."

Looks like he's in the Bill Clinton mold. Is his name really Seman?

I agree with Alice - seems that dissent is only valid if someone is paying for it. Not paying for it is apparently tantamount to suppressing it.

You know, like Tim Robbins going on national TV to talk about how his freedom of expression is being infringed upon.

I've always found it amusing that "criticism" and actions related to that has become redefined as "crushing dissent."

"2) We refuse to allow our campaign to be bullied by the right wing like they bullied Kos' previous advertisers. " (From Seeman for Congress website).

Huh??!! How do right wingers bully Democratic candidates? If anything, they would wear it like a badge of honor to be "bullied" by the VRWC. Spermhead got it wrong, the Dems pulling their ads from Kos was an example (a far too rare example) of left wingers making the realization that some words and thoughts are so vile and disgusting that they need to disassociate from them.

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga aka "Kos": Hero of the Fifth Column!

Like several previous posters here, I am amazed at how people believe freedom of speech means that *they* can say what they want, but other people cannot choose to take their money elsewhere. Idiots.

I was very happy to see one of the patient troll-bashers at LGF calmly and completely explain the First Amendment. I'm sure the trolls know, deep down, that for an asinine blogger to lose funding over deeply offensive statements is NOT censorship, but at some point you have to fight back and not let them control the argument. And a good place to start is by noting that (a) the government has done nothing to Kos and (b) all the people now criticizing him, delinking him, and publicly removing their funding are exercising THEIR freedom of speech.

If it must be explained over and over again to keep the trolls from hijacking "censorship" and "freedom of speech", so be it. Kos and his types are nothing if not the quiet fascists who believe in free speech for me, but not for thee.

I tried googling for real cases of blogs being censored, but didn't have much luck. Anyone else willing to have a go?

I'm heartened by Mr. Seeman's support of free speech. I'm sure he'll maintain that support when his opponents start running Kos' statement over his face in their campaign ads...

A pet tactic of the Left has always been the boycott. Back in college, it was an article of faith that the owner of an international chain of pizzarias contributed to anti-abortion causes.

Many lefties at school would not eat the pizza. I thought the pizza was shite myself but in not eating it, was I "censoring" this millionaire, was I "crushing dissent"?

I won't eat the pizza (because it's shite) and I won't drink the lefty "kool-aid". Sue me.