Strikethrough: Three Questions

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Is it just me, or is The Big Apology a bit on the passive-aggressive side?

The whole thing is quite absurd, anyway. Would an actual rapist or pedophile intending to solicit victims put "rape" or "pedophilia" as an interest? Wouldn't be more likely to put something like "free candy" or "I lost my puppy"?

So, are we still posting pr0n tomorrow?

ETA: symbioid has a nice post here about why this is a free speech issue, even though it's a matter of censorship by a private corporation rather than by the government:

Here's the thing. You say that only the government can engage in censorship. Wal-Mart, Livejournal, etc... don't. They have every right as private entities to prevent you from saying what you want on their turf. This effectively limits free speech to 1) Your Home (which if you're renting, isn't even technically yours, so if you're landlord has an anti-free speech clause, you're SOL, yes I'm speaking in jest, here) or 2) Government Property.

In this day and age, more and more public space is becoming privatized. Speech can be further stifled by pure prevention in the ever growing private regions (no pun intended... "you can't sell "Rape Me" by Nirvana, in Wal-Mart, for example), or by effectively limiting access to the speech by charging some sort of cost. (thus it isn't "free as in beer")

When every space becomes a commodity to purchase and close off (even if in a public area), the public good is endangered.