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From: lazarus@athena.mit.edu (Michael Friedman)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,news.admin
Subject: Re: Fascism Lives (Courtesy and counterproductive lack of it)
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Date: 10 Apr 88 04:33:56 GMT
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In article <2475@c3pe.UUCP} aliza@c3pe.UUCP (Aliza R. Panitz) writes:
}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.

OK. Now explain why this same reasoning does not apply to Tim Sevener?

(Or if you think it does apply, where do you draw the line?)

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

I know. That is why I asked politely and that is why I said that Uhrig
could do whatever he wanted with his site. 



These are the official opinions			Mike Friedman
of my organization. So, TOUGH!!