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From: aliza@c3pe.UUCP (Aliza R. Panitz)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,news.admin
Subject: Re: Fascism Lives (Courtesy and counterproductive lack of it)
Message-ID: <2475@c3pe.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 88 22:53:09 GMT
References: <68@rolls.UUCP> <3365@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1048@ut-emx.UUCP> <3429@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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Summary: Freedom of speech != Freedom to inflict

In article <3429@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, lazarus@athena.mit.edu (Michael Friedman) writes:
> In article <1048@ut-emx.UUCP> kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>  >In article <3365@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU >, lazarus@athena.mit.edu (Michael Friedman) writes:
>  > > In article <68@rolls.UUCP > news@rolls.UUCP (The Nutter) writes:
>  > >  >As a netnews administrator here and on terminus, I never suspected
>  > >  >that I would ever compile as a fascist.  Lately, though, postings by
>  > >  >a user "scrooge" from this site have forced me to do so.
 
>  > > It is, of course, your site, and you have the right to do what you
>  > > want with it. Scrooge is also something of an asshole.
 
>  > > Despite this I do not think it is appropriate to stop him from
>  > > posting... 

Oh...  you don't want to read his garbage...  but you DO want every news site
on the net to be forced to pay for transmitting and storing his garbage.

USENET is NOT totally covered by the first amendment...  

 
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- Aliza (AlmostLady) (decuac.dec.com!c3pe!aliza or backbone!decuac!c3pe!aliza)
"Part of the Art of being a Woman is knowing when not to be too much of a Lady"