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From: megjsz@mibte.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Censorship in talk.bizarre (was Re: Alas poor airwick)
Message-ID: <2393@mibte.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 10:59:04 EST
Article-I.D.: mibte.2393
Posted: Mon Nov 16 10:59:04 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Nov-87 02:42:47 EST
References: <2265@gryphon.CTS.COM> <5908@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <3384@xanth.UUCP>
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Keywords: free speach for twits, too
Summary: AI PROJECT ERICA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In article <3384@xanth.UUCP>, kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
> In article <5908@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> skyler@violet.berkeley.edu.UUCP () writes:
> >In article <2265@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
> >>In article <1784@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dmjones@athena.mit.edu (David M. Jones) writes:
> >>>I agree with Oleg.  Please don't try to get Eric thrown off of the net.
> >>That would be too good for him. I suggest death.[...]
> >
> >[...] I say we slowly torture him. [...]
> 
> We may have succeeded a bit too well here.  From recent evidence, some
> cretin at puff has actually suspended E.M.'s right to post.  Now I
> didn't much like Eric's postings; they indicated lack of common sense,
> common courtesy, even of growing up in the same universe.
> 
> But!
> 
> However much I didn't like them, I read them right along with the rest
> of the newsgroup, flayed him to ribbons where appropriate, and, on
> those rare occassions when I managed to arouse his miniscule available
> attention for anything outside his own corpus, got some of the same
> back in return.  That is good clean fun, and what the net is all
> about.  Learning to deal with criticism, and to review his ideas, may
> have someday turned Eric into a true human being, as it has done for
> the rest of us.
> 
> But if Eric can be censored for his commentary, so can I, or you, or
> any other poster be censored.  I'd put up with reading positngs from
> 1000 more like Eric, before I'd admit that someone else should decide
> what I should post.
> 
> So, here is the start of one of the strangest campaigns ever begun in
> talk.bizarre:  BRING BACK ERIC MADING!
> 
> >Damn.  Back to the drawing board.
> 
> You'd better believe it.  Big brother is just around the corner, and
> this is NOT what we wanted.
> 
> >-skyler
> 
> Kent, the (freedom loving) man from xanth.



	I don't believe that Erica was dismanteled for talk.bizarre entries.
If you move around the net a bit, you will have noticed that he regularly 
posted to several others.....However, (S)he did overstep the bounds of pro-
-priety in several of these aforementioned groups... If we could determine
why the error caused SOOOO much stupidity, we could probably have the Sysop
allow the reactivation ...... But this is only assumption, and you know what
happens when we do that....I do agree with >-skler, especially for this group.

	Skyler, what can I do to assist you in the campaign ?
	I'm on your right flank as viewed from above with the North Pole 
		Straight - a - head........

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