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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
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Subject: Re: USENET site admin responsibilities (was: Re: Censorship is for
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Date: 5 Sep 89 13:26:41 GMT
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In article <1989Sep3.225305.9042@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu (John
L. Coolidge) writes:
>>Second is harrassment.  Pruss harrassed all of us by saying all of us are
>>going to get AIDS, die and go to hell.  Freedom of speech was never intended
>>to protect the ability to harrass.
>
>GONG! Wrong answer. Freedom of speech was intended, first and foremost,
>to protect offensive speech, including harassing speach.
>

Run down the street, yelling obscenities at passerbys. You will be arrested
for 'disturbing the peace'. 

I do agree with the rest of your article.

>The situation is very similar to that found in other broadcast media:
>print, TV, radio, etc. These organizations have absolutely no obligation
>to provide their services to anyone who walks in the door simply due to
>freedom of speech. On the other hand, if a paper decides to offer a
>"free expression page" --- a page where ALL opinions of a given length
>and format will be printed --- they cannot then remove only certain
>opinions because they're "offensive". USENET is like the "free expression
>page" --- it carries all opinions whatever they might be. But each site
>can decide on its own whether or not to offer access to the page in the
>first place.
>
>--John
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