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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Freedom of speech
Message-ID: <120@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-May-84 23:21:40 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 12 23:21:40 1984
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Freedom of speech and freedom from criticism are indeed not the same,
but hounding an entire organization off USENET because of what one
person posted one time is something else again.  This has happened.
It started pretty much the same way as all this "gay blade" hassle.

How about everybody take a middle ground for a change, like rotating
potentially offensive jokes (what a novel idea!) instead of
pre-censoring them for fear of harrassment.  (Yes, I know how there are
people out there who will object to even seeing a group or subject
mentioned in a title with rot13 in it, and I know there are tree haters
out there who print everything before reading it, but you can't please
everybody, and the only way to never offend anybody anywhere is to
just go ahead and drop dead.)
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 USA
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