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Newsgroups: news.misc,soc.women
Subject: Re: retraction
Message-ID: <16959@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 19:15:32 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  2 19:15:32 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jun-87 00:38:42 EDT
References: <9729@clyde.ATT.COM> <3767@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <16895@amdcad.AMD.COM> <3788@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, Ca.
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Keywords: Mark Smith, People's Park, lies
Xref: utgpu news.misc:435 soc.women:4202
Summary: Mark Smith is telling untruths.

In article <3788@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> era1987@violet.berkeley.edu () writes:
>I'm interested to know
>why they would censor feminist or egalitarian views, but not censor porn,
>obscenity or swastikas. [...] They refused to sell their services to me
>because my views differed from theirs.

Mark Smith was tossed off of the Well because of Mark's abuse of host account
privs and for causing large amounts of disruption.  There are plenty of
feminists and egalitarians on the Well, as well as people whose views differ
from the Well management's views.  

"Porn" and "obscenity" are in the eyes of the beholder.  

There are no swastikas on the Well.

Mark, do you care to elaborate on the swastikas?  If you are going to make
such sensationalist claims, you should be backing them up with facts.

>The Well got its hardware from tax exempt entities called NETI and Point
>Foundation.  

The Well got its hardware and software from NETI, a for-profit corporation.
They did this as an investment, as you may have expected.

>[...] and probably got a free newsfeed.

There are very few sites in the USA that have to pay their neighbour to give
them a newsfeed, if any.  [This is, of course, not counting phone bills]
-- 
Andrew Scott Beals, {lll-crg,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!bandy +1 408 749 3683


-- 
Andrew Scott Beals, {lll-crg,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!bandy +1 408 749 3683