[SteveEisenberg]

Originally Posted by doubleshuffle

Here's what for me is the central passage in Arundhati Roy's open letter:

Yes, that's the central passage.

But Penguin did fight this legally. They put reasonable resources into standing up for a principle, more than a hard-hearted devotion to profit would have dictated. The problem is that, from a purely legal standpoint, Penguin appears to have been in the wrong.

Originally Posted by Connallmac

How about just enforcing laws against riots and mob violence?

It's in the nature of mob violence that it is too chaotic to use the one-offense-at-a-time careful methods of criminal justice. Arresting all rioters can't be done fairly and is something you might see done in authoritarian regimes.

I'm not saying they should care more about blasphemy than rioting. I am saying that no path is easy.