The Twitter account in question is a somewhat crude - to some eyes offensive - exercise designed to mock Steve Auckland, the Chief Executive of Northcliffe Media, a regional newspaper business owned by the Daily Mail group.
Some media outlets found the whole exercise offensive from beginning to end.
Rather, rights have become a means for the offensive or defensive exercise of naked power or intimidation, whether through weaponry, money, control of natural resources, or marketing and advertising.
The defenders of free speech will reply that all are free to turn a deaf ear to offensive speech, or to exercise their own freedom to condemn it, but that restraining it offends against the rights of the pornographer.
"Hopefully it won't take another Snowden-like leakage or a massive conflict where new offensive cyber powers are exercised to give us more insight into the new rules of engagement and foreign policy stance," Curry said.
About one-quarter of Kuwaiti territory has been cordoned off so that United States Army forces can train and carry out exercises, many involving offensive scenarios as the American military prepares for a potential attack on Iraq.
The report added: "Although initial training efforts [by the PLA] focused on increasing the PLA's proficiency in defensive measures, recent exercises have incorporated offensive operations, primarily as first strikes against enemy networks".
They perceive US-South Korean defensive military exercises as potentially offensive, and analysts say the North Koreans believe their nuclear weapons are the only thing keeping them safe from a US attack.
They can within a very, very, short time convert a major military exercise into an offensive military operation".
And it is the offensive linemen who say the exercise has fostered a kinship for a unit toiling at a largely thankless job.
