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Dear Apple: Apply tolerance

Sheila Liaugminas | 04 December 2010

Social communications is about the exchange of information and ideas. There’s not a lot of censorship (examples abound), except when some ideas are restricted by those who disagree. The democracy of the internet stops at the threshold of its powerbrokers. Like Steve Jobs, who was coerced to pull the plug on direct access to…what?


First, get social moral issues right

Sheila Liaugminas | 22 September 2010
Then come policy decisions on taxes, the economy, trade, healthcare reform, immigration…

Fads begin from the top down

Sheila Liaugminas | 14 December 2009
Movements, from the bottom up.

Important decisions are now being made

Sheila Liaugminas | 03 December 2009
…or soon will be made. Forces favoring abortion, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide, the redefinition of marriage, and the like see this as a critical moment for advancing their causes.
 
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