In mass communication it is important to group ideas together. Some words possess no ownership. I can not describe myself as gold, because I clearly am not, but I could call myself a patriotic American. You attach words with positive connotation to yourself while tossing negative words at your opponent. The positive/negative definitions are determined by the ideology of those you are communicating to, not yourself.
In the non-political sense, we can see words like "Lite" or "Professional" attached to food or software. I can't say something is sodium free, but I can call it "Lite."
Eventually these words become meaningless because too many people have chosen to attach the words to themselves or others.
People in the United States see left and right differently than other countries. From some standpoints, the Democrats are on the right, and the Republicans just a little further.
The first "siege" on internet freedom came with the Children's Online Protection Act (COPA.) Research it if you want to know more.
Was COPA a bill to protect children from the evil's of internet pornography? Or was it a law to enable the government to suppress free speech on the internet? The law received support from the "left" and from the "right" and was signed by a Democrat President (was Bill Clinton left or right?) The Supreme Court threw the whole thing out.
In the non-political sense, we can see words like "Lite" or "Professional" attached to food or software. I can't say something is sodium free, but I can call it "Lite."
Eventually these words become meaningless because too many people have chosen to attach the words to themselves or others.
People in the United States see left and right differently than other countries. From some standpoints, the Democrats are on the right, and the Republicans just a little further.
The first "siege" on internet freedom came with the Children's Online Protection Act (COPA.) Research it if you want to know more.
Was COPA a bill to protect children from the evil's of internet pornography? Or was it a law to enable the government to suppress free speech on the internet? The law received support from the "left" and from the "right" and was signed by a Democrat President (was Bill Clinton left or right?) The Supreme Court threw the whole thing out.