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From: chad@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (darknight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore Top Management
Summary: Everybody is acting like idiots, IMHO
Keywords: barret flames censorship
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Date: 12 Apr 90 22:02:07 GMT
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In article <2191@crash.cts.com> oleg@pnet01.cts.com (Oleg Rovner) writes:
>
>Should we have a poll as to what percentage would like Mark Barret off the
>net?

>Wishing a person dead is quite beyond the bounds of normality when the
>only benefit of the idea is promotion of one's idea of what life
>should be like.

	So is wishing for (and actively working for) someone to have
their Usenet privileges removed on the basis of making a few mistakes.
Both are occuring because people are getting upset over how an
individual feels he should run his life, and other people feel he
should be systematically screwed for life.  If you do not see the
parallels, then I think you are blind.  (MY opinions).

	I suggest everyone just COOL down and handle this in a
rational manner (and avoid the witch hunt methodology that this is
becoming).  If you don't like what Marc has to say, write him e-mail
and tell him so.  Be SPECIFIC about what offends you and why.  Ask him
to stop...  If he doesn't stop after a week or so, you MAY have a case
against him that warrants his restriction in some way from the net,
but PROBABLY NOT!   Instead, just don't read anything he says.  You
don't have too.  I still say he didn't break any "rules" (as much as
their are rules on Usenet), and wishing someone were dead (as
distasteful an opinion as it is) is not the same as saying that that
someone should be killed (ie. it wasn't conspiracy or anything).

	In my opinion, people who feel they have the right to remove
the priveleges of someone else, solely for disagreeing with them, are
themselves the ones who do not DESERVE to read the net.  (MHO)

	I shall post no more on the subject in this group.  All flames
should be directed to e-mail.

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