Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!fsu1.cc.fsu.edu!otto From: otto@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu (John Otto) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article Summary: Rights of computer owner are not supreme Message-ID: <1991Jun8.020516.9531@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Date: 8 Jun 91 02:12:06 GMT References: <1991May29.222406.26060@herald.usask.ca> <48330@bcsaic.UUCP> Sender: news@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Usenet News File Owner) Reply-To: otto@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu Organization: Florida State University Lines: 22 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 Nntp-Posting-Host: fsu1.cc.fsu.edu In article <48330@bcsaic.UUCP>, snicoud@Boeing.com (Stephen L Nicoud) writes... >In article <1991May29.222406.26060@herald.usask.ca> lowey@herald.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey) writes: >>If anyone has a RIGHT here, it is the right of the owner of a computer to >>control how his computer is used. Its exactly the same as the bus driver who >>has the right to kick anyone off the bus if they are causing a problem. >>Claiming that the USERS have rights to get electronic mail, no matter how >>badly they act, is similar to saying that bus riders have the right to steal >>the bus, and use it to rob a bank. If someone is trying to use MY equipment >>in a way *I* consider is improper, then *I* have every right to kick those >>people off *MY* computer. >And how about the bus driver/owner who makes black people sit in the >back of the bus. Clearly it is not *always* up to the owner's notion >of what is "improper". You cannot restrict the activities based upon >sex, race, religion, creed, etc... This was one of my early disagreements with the violation of rights movement. If it were a government subsidized bus, then fine, prohibit them from discriminating. If a person uses his own earnings to pay for something, it should be his - to have and hold - i.e. to control without interference from others (until and unless it is used to attack someone else).