Thuggish Censorship of Connecticut newspaper

Posted on June 25, 2008

We read:

“Mayor Eddie A. Perez ratcheted up his campaign against “racist comments and hate speech” posted by readers on Courant.com Friday by holding a protest outside the newspaper’s Broad Street headquarters.

Surrounded by a few dozen state and municipal elected officials, members of community organizations and city employees, Hartford’s mayor stood in front of The Courant to take it to task.

“Let me begin by making it clear that this is not, this is not about free speech,” Perez said. “This is about asking the corporate citizen in our community not to provide a platform for hate and racist material in our community.” “Enough is enough,” Perez said to applause. “Enough is enough.”

The rally comes at the end of a week in which Perez issued two press releases targeting the reader comments, and wrote a letter to the newspaper’s publisher demanding that The Courant stop the anonymous postings.

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The usual ignorant Leftist claim that “hate speech is not free speech”. It looks like the newspaper owner is going to bend to the pressure, though. And what a hero the Mayor must have felt himself to be! Lovely cheap applause.

I have not been able to find what the “hate speech” was but the following comment from a reader of the newspaper may give a clue:

“Don’t you people know that you are only supposed to say nice things about Perez and the city of Hartford, anything else you say is racist, hate speech!”

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One Response to “Thuggish Censorship of Connecticut newspaper”

nocomme1 on June 25th, 2008 12:14 pm

Well golly, he did say “Let me begin by making it clear that this is not, this is not about free speech,”, didn’t he? It is about speech he doesn’t agree with and, you know, that’s different.