Lèse majesté
While I am not offended by people who disagree with me, and generally am tolerant of those who post irrelevant comments, claiming the owner of this site doesn’t know Mexican history based on some Cantinflas film and repeating his tedious references to “corruption” when the post was merely about remarks by various political figures of note is extremely bad manners. Although the person uses a “Hispanic” surname in his email address, he apparently is unaware of the importance of good manners in Mexican culture. The Mex Files being, first and foremost, an exposition on Mexican culture, as site administrator I would be remiss not to uphold Mexican propriety, and have awarded the commentator the first ever listing on the Mex Files’ Askimet “comment blacklist”.
A free press belongs to those that own the press, and a free website belongs to the person who pays for (and maintains) the website. Le site, c’est moi.
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Ok, I agree that everyone has the right to free speech, but you also the right not to listen to what people say. It is YOUR right not to listen, just as it’s THEIR right to speak.
But lese majeste is not about that. LM law makes it a crime to criticise a monarch. In Thailand for instance, anyone who criticises the king goes to prison for 15 years. Usually after a secret “trial”.
You are not making it a crime to write dosh on your blog and sending people to prison, you are simply chosing to ignore those who insult you. It’s not the same thing.
You are a private individual who holds no public office, and does not benefit financially from running this blog, and you do not represent anyone. So it is up to you who comments and doesn’t comment on your blog.
Ah, see how educational this site is?
Lese majeste in the metaphorical sense, of course. The term is also used in law to describe insults against the state or head of state in some countries, including Mexico (the last prosecution I can think of being a poet who insulted the flag, and was fined 500 pesos), Yes, I am a “private individual who holds no public office, and does not benefit financially from running this blog, and [does] not represent anyone” — though it appeared very much as if the commentator believed I was some sort of official person to whom he could dictate what I wrote, or what I selected to write about.
Or perhaps it is just delusions of grandeur… “I am monarch of all I survey, look on my works oh ye mighty and despair”.
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BRAVO ! ! !
There’s always one. Sometimes two. I have a pair of cretins who’ve managed to get themselves added to the Spam Filter.
I believe in Responsible Speech, rather than Free Speech. But on my blog Non Cretinous Speech trumps everything else.
I have one with multiple personalities.
:O