Almost a century ago GK Chesterton wrote these words: «We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which furious party cries will be
raised against anybody who says that cows have horns, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three - sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.»
Does
anybody find it surprising that the LW article doesn't mention that situation, yet it states that the issue «was
raised — but not decided — in the action
against Google's books database plan?