RANDOM HOUSE publishers…On Friday, August 19, on a sunny, late summer morning, writers and readers stood in solidarity with Salman Rushdie and advocated for freedom of expression on the steps of The New York Public Library. Supporters of Rushdie and free speech alike gathered with signs and held up books as authors read from Rushdie’s body of work and shared personal memories of the author.
I’ve always had a hard time trying to figure out what Free Speech really means in today’s world. And with all this Fake News going around, what exactly is free speech? My wife has sometimes been known to say, (by way of explaining anything I may have said that’s, oh…I don’t know, maybe a little off-colour, or simply inappropriate?) but saying all the same: “Just ignore what he says, he doesn’t really have a filter.” As my list of followers here is still relatively small, and most of the people here know me, or my wife, (or maybe both of us), they can well attes…
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