Free speech diligence

I think I'm going to take the opportunity to applaud the blogosphere for aggressively guarding its collective freedom of speech. Congress has passed law and regulations have been drawn up over the past few years that don't directly address or impact bloggers, yet most bloggers have been aware enough to fight them because of their potential future use. After all, it is not the direct assault on speech that should be feared, because those direct assaults can be easily turned back. It is the indirect regulation which gets re-interpreted or extended over time that we should fear, and it is those regulations that the blogosphere has wisely raised stinks about. Keep it up, everyone.