Andy Carvin has declared today "Stop Cyberbullying Day,"  and I'm happy to participate.

I'm an ardent believer in both free speech and civil discourse, and I recognize that it's a never-ending struggle to balance these two. 

Let's all commit ourselves to that struggle. As we take action to stop cyberbullying, I'd like to encourage everyone to read, and think of, and discuss ways to strike the right balance.




One of my constant inspirations is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in this context, I'd especially like to call attention to three of its articles:


Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. (2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. (3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.




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