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From: swarren@eugene.uucp (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: soc.motss,talk.rumors,news.admin,news.misc
Subject: Re: USENET site admin responsibilities (was: Re: Censorship is for Wusses)
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Date: 7 Sep 89 16:23:23 GMT
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In article <89250.001226HERSCHEL@AUVM> HERSCHEL@AUVM.BITNET (Herschel Browne) writes:
                         [...]
>a duty to subsidize it; now THAT is crap. A university really DOES
>have a duty to make possible unfettered communication. Perhaps a
>for-profit corporation doesn't, but I wish they would all go away
>anyway. I don't mean away from this network, I mean away from the
>face of the earth.
                         [...]
Give me a break.  The only nations where for-profit corporations have
been abolished are no longer able to even feed their own populations.
In order to survive they are forced to once again recognize private
property and the right to profit from one's own possessions.  Human
nature is such that people refuse to spend their lives working when
there is no direct tangible benefit to themselves as a result of their
labor.

Your wish to remove profit oriented corporations from the earth reveals
the bankrupt motive for your argument.  It also reveals a foolish lack
of understanding of basic human nature, as well as a frightening refusal
to learn anything from the history of the nations that now exist.

As for net censorship, I expect that behavior that is damaging to the
organization that is funding the net connection will generate a response
of some kind from them.  Every organization, for-profit or not, tends
to fight for its own reputation and ultimately for its survival.  Those
organizations that are not responsive cease to exist.  This is not a
moral question, merely a fact of reality.


Obviously these are my opinions and not those of my employers.
--Steve
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