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From: gmadison@pnet02.gryphon.com (George Madison)
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Subject: Re: USENET site admin responsibilities (was: Re: Censorship is for Wusses)
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Date: 4 Sep 89 01:40:13 GMT
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bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>
>I consider free speech to take precedence over privileged communication.
>
>A person who is barred from the net for his opinions is no different
>from a person who is barred from the newspapers for his opinions.
>

Intriguing you should bring this up, since it really savages your so-called
"logic".  A newspaper is under no obligation to print ANYTHING sent to them;
good newspapers try to stimulate rational debated, and do their best to show
all facets of an issue.  That DOESN'T mean that they have to print the nitwit
ramblings of anyone with access to a typewriter or word processor.  If someone
can't get their message across in the existing papers, they are perfectly FREE
to start their own.  The First Amendment talks about SPEECH -- NOT the medium.
It is just as much an infringement of basic rights to demand access to someone
ELSE'S property for you to transmit your speech as you claim was committed
against Mr. Pruss.  Or perhaps you'd like someone to come drive you off your
terminal to spout bigoted crap onto the Net while you're trying to meet a
thesis (or other) deadline??  If you object, you're a hypocrite, since that's
the exact sort of scenario you'Re advocating.


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