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Patricia De Lille wants to restrict your freedom

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Patricia De Lille wants to limit your freedom of speech, read this link for the full story. What it comes down to, is that she is calling on government to somehow regulate blogs and electronic communication to prevent anonymous defamatory comments. I’m quite disappointed, I honestly thought that De Lille was a bit more intelligent than that. I would’ve even voted for her before.

In this country, countless people have fought a long and hard struggle for the freedom of our people. Many have even died for the cause. And now, De Lille, who really should know better, wants to take some of our freedoms away from us again. Government regulating on-line communication will only result in bad things. No matter what they implement, there will still be ways to anonymously post content, while the legislation will just hurt the people who want to be heard. We already have a situation in the country where rape victims hardly report the incidents, since they are afraid of how their family/police/etc would respond. South Africans need to learn to speak up more, and fight more for their rights, NOT the other way around.

Patricia, you’re a big public figure, and lots of people have huge amounts of respect for you. Please, stop trying to take people’s rights away from them. It’s not the right thing to do.

2 Responses to “Patricia De Lille wants to restrict your freedom”

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    matthewbuckland.com » Patricia De Lille wants govt to regulate her very own words - May 22nd, 2007 at 12:33 pm

  2. This is a democratic country.
    We are entitled to freedom of speech.
    I’m sick and tired of seeing public leaders “protected” by their mates.
    What if the whole story written by the male prostitute is true?
    What if he is in hiding because he has been threatened by those in power?
    Why did De Lille not protect and support Zuma when his sexual life was pasted all over newspapers and TV?
    There is something going on.
    I smell a BIG RAT!!!!
    To shut down a website and make such a fuss about the allegations says there is possibly something to hide?
    I watched Interface last night. The psychology of it is that they were far too defensive, far to agressive.
    Let the truth be told and let our freedom of speech continue.
    Let the cat out of the bag.

    Lucy - June 11th, 2007 at 9:33 am

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