I'm going to echo this one, because it's important. Scoble points to an article in the Chicago Sun-Times about a girl not disciplined for her opinions on her blog. Robert is right too: it was handled in the best way. Why are these parents still mad? Would they rather they only had a right to an opinion so long as it agreed with the majority? If so, who is more ignorant ... them or the girl with her own opinions?

It's timely for this blog because I was just talking about freedom last week. Any freedom comes with the good and the bad. You can't be free to express your ideas without a good chance of running into other ideas you disagree with. How you deal with those different ideas shows what kind of person you are. Can you counter them with more convincing arguments? Will you just ignore the ideas or will you consider them? Can you explain your side without going off the handle?

The free software guys know this too: the benefit of them releasing a free operating system outweighs the negative impact that say, a terrorist organization could have from using it. Free encryption libraries are under this microscope as well.

Freedom is all or nothing. If we deny freedom to people we disagree with then we are only undermining it for ourselves as well.