Witold Walczak
Witold Walczak
Witold "Vic" Walczak is the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania...
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Just because a police chief or other public official doesn't like what is being said about them on an Internet bulletin board doesn't give them license to use official powers to threaten and intimidate critics or take steps to shut down the Web site. As the saying goes, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment industry.
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The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.