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From: spl@mcnc.org (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc
Subject: Re: USENET site admin responsibilities (was: Re: Censorship is for Wusses)
Message-ID: <5269@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 3 Sep 89 22:23:33 GMT
References: <3659@uwovax.uwo.ca> <13316@nsc.nsc.com> <3988@buengc.BU.EDU> <1989Sep3.043558.9447@xenitec.uucp> <4030@buengc.BU.EDU> <2860@splut.conmicro.com>
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In article <2860@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
>In article <4030@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>264 lines of argument based on an invalid assumption: that there is such
>a thing as freedom of speech on the net.
>
>Sorry, Blair, but it doesn't work that way in the real world. Them that
>has the gold makes the rules. There is no more freedom of speech on any
>site than those who own the system allow. If you think that there should
>be freedom of speech on my site, send me $5000, and I'll sell you the
>computer; otherwise, stop trying to tell me how to run it.

Jay, I don't think that anyone is telling *you* or anyone else how to run your
site.  Sites may be run as autocratically or democratically as the site
administration wishes.  This much is clear, I hope.  However, it should also
be clear that some of us will reserve the right to protest autocratic and
oppressive policies by sites which persist in restricting freedom of speech.
To do otherwise is to surrender to those who wish to impose an unhealthy
censorship and homogeneity (sp?) of thought upon all of us.

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							spl
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