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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: Towards making hosts and their admin free from a criminal offence
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Date: Wed, 21-May-86 12:03:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 21 12:03:44 1986
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Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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In response to Isaac Balbin:

>Agreed. Would you consider say a racist article a `free exchange of ideas'?

Yes, I would also consider it disgusting and would probably tell the
poster to shut up because everyone thinks s/he's an ass and not worth
carrying. That is, I would hope I don't need laws and the police to
control such things, its inappropriate. Even if they persisted, either
a) they send a few notes here and there and I could ignore them, I
don't care and don't lose sleep over the *existence* of such notes
b) They are blasting the net with volume and that can be dealt with
at that level as with anyone doing such.

I think it's a sad mistake to look towards police authority (I mean
literal police authority, not figurative) to settle such differences,
they never do it very well.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University