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From: gf@dasys1.UUCP (G Fitch)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,news.admin
Subject: Re: Fascism Lives (Courtesy and counterproductive lack of it)
Message-ID: <3872@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 23:02:17 GMT
References: <68@rolls.UUCP> <3365@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1048@ut-emx.UUCP> <3429@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <2475@c3pe.UUCP>
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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.
}>  > > 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...  

But the problem of supression is the same as with offensive forms of
public speech in general.  The means of deciding to suppress it, and
the means of suppressing it, are more offensive than the speech itself
could be, since they lead to everyone's loss of freedom.

"Scrooge"'s postings added vanishingly small costs to USENET, proportionally
speaking, but even if they did not, the expense would be worth the
freedom, at least to me.
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