When someone writes Mein Kampf in German, I don't object that that antisemitism is not what German is about - it would be equally objectionable whatever language it was written in. German is just a platform for communication. But if you were e.g. constructing some kind of survey of important German writings you might have well have cause to complain that it was one of the less pleasant books in that language and you'd rather have avoided it.
Similarly the profusion of video is objectionable not because it's violating some abstract principle about the web, but for practical reasons that apply however it reaches me. And a lot of it reaches me because it's because widespread online.
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Date: 2008-08-27 02:44 pm (UTC)When someone writes Mein Kampf in German, I don't object that that antisemitism is not what German is about - it would be equally objectionable whatever language it was written in. German is just a platform for communication. But if you were e.g. constructing some kind of survey of important German writings you might have well have cause to complain that it was one of the less pleasant books in that language and you'd rather have avoided it.
Similarly the profusion of video is objectionable not because it's violating some abstract principle about the web, but for practical reasons that apply however it reaches me. And a lot of it reaches me because it's because widespread online.