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| reply to B
Re: You want others to pay for your speech--why?
The right to free speech and the right to be heard are connected. If you remove the possibility of being heard than the right to free speech is an illusion. Therefore, the "right" of free speech implies a "possibility" of being heard, but not a "right" of being heard.
The community square (and it's counterpart, public access TV) does not provide a "right" of being heard (people can always walk away), but it does provide the "possibility" of being heard.
The cable company is charging you a fee to subsidize public access. So what? It's the business model that you've agreed to. You end up subsidizing ALL channels that you receive, whether you watch them or not. ESPN charges the cable TV company more than any other channel by far. If you don't watch ESPN, you are subsidizing anybody that does. When was the last time someone that watches ESPN thanked you for paying a little extra every month so that they could watch ESPN?
OK, so I occasionally watch public access, so thank you for paying a little extra every month so that I could watch public access. |
