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From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Re: Selective enforcement ... (what socialist thinking?)
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Date: Wed, 23-May-84 13:17:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 13:17:41 1984
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Me (dciem!ntt):
>> ... You were *driving a car on a public road*.  This is a privilege ...

Warren N. Shadwick (teldata!shad):
> I don't think we should allow socialist comments like this on a free net.
> Please don't take that comment seriously particularly about censorship,
> the free flow of ideas is good, *but* socialist thinking must be replied to.

Me:
The above is not Mr. Shadwick's main point, but Guy Harris and I have
already posted our comments on that point (as posted by somebody else,
if I remember rightly), i.e., we don't think that movement implies driving.

What I want to say here is that I think Mr. Shadwick was confused by
my use of "public road".  I was referring to access, not ownership.
It is precisely because anybody *is* permitted to go on a public road
that people who operate *vehicles* on them have to be regulated.

The attitude that because a road is publicly owned, the public has a
right to do *anything they want* on it, seems to me to be closer to a
socialist position than mine is.  (I don't regard "socialist" as an
insult, but it is not a description of the way I feel about most things.)

Mark Brader