Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by illirik on Friday March 05, 2021 @03:49AM (#26354499)

What information in these children's books is undermining dictatorial governments? The government isn't censoring e.g. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States or Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago - these are literally just picture books with racist caricatures in them. You have no right to shout "fire" in a crowded theater, and you have no right to denigrate your fellow man.

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by Veen on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:15AM (#26354718)

> you have no right to denigrate your fellow man

Of course you do. Can you imagine what the world would be like if the government gave itself the power and created the bureaucratic machinery to stop people denigrating their fellow man? It would be a dystopian nightmare.

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by hansbo on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:53AM (#26354977)

Defamation is illegal in plenty of non-dystopian countries.

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by manigandham on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:17PM (#26359267)

There's a difference between defamation and denigration.

You're allowed to criticize anything, but if you knowingly publish lies, especially maliciously, then it crosses the line.

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by hansbo on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @02:02AM (#26408645)

There is a difference, but there are countries where it is illegal despite it being true. Sweden is an example of this.

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by pineaux on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:17AM (#26355132)

I don't see a government censoring this book. Is it illegal to have this book? Should I now force barnes and noble to sell my radical insurrectionist anarchist zines? They are gagging my right to free speech!

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by Veen on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:33AM (#26355252)

You seem to have responded to the wrong comment. Either that or you decided my comment was a good opportunity to spew some irrelevant gibberish.

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by base698 on Friday March 05, 2021 @06:24AM (#26355593)

Would be?

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by illirik on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:42AM (#26354909)

There's a difference between "you shouldn't do hate speech" and some sort of 1984/V-for-Vendetta mechanism to ensure that nobody ever does hate speech. Laws and ethics are not the same thing.

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by throwawayfrauds on Friday March 05, 2021 @03:56AM (#26354553)

You’re actually wrong about rights in the United States. You have every right to do all of the things you claim you don’t: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by illirik on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:09AM (#26354660)

The laws in the United States are pretty convoluted, and I don't think they align with human rights all that well, especially given the treatment of imprisoned folks or asylum seekers. However, I do think that causing mass hysteria for kicks (shouting fire...) is wrong and you should not do it.

I'm curious: do you believe that there is anything that one does not have the right to say?

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by throwawayfrauds on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:20AM (#26354761)

Nope. And every other country in the world is available for someone to move to if they don’t like the US free speech laws.

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by illirik on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:45AM (#26354922)

So you believe that there is absolutely no form of speech whatsoever that should be protected as free speech?

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by manigandham on Friday March 05, 2021 @07:03AM (#26355887)

> "You have no right to shout "fire" in a crowded theater"

This is completely false. It's nothing more than a mis-quoted opinion of a justice in a very old case which was eventually overturned and allowed exactly this kind of speech.

Please inform yourself of the laws you're claiming exist before you try to make arguments about them.

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by numeromancer on Friday March 05, 2021 @09:51AM (#26357409)

In particular, this was an analogy used by Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck vs United States. The act which he compared to "shouting fire in a crowded theatre" was passing out leaflets opposing the draft, ie the government's power to force people to go to a war by which the American people were not threatened.

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