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From: tab@mhuxt.UUCP (Tracey A. Baker)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Fascism Lives
Message-ID: <2382@mhuxt.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 17:46:31 GMT
References: <2475@c3pe.UUCP> <328@nvuxk.UUCP>
Reply-To: tab@mhuxt.UUCP (Tracey A. Baker)
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In article <328@nvuxk.UUCP> perseus@nvuxk.UUCP (A D Domaratius) writes:
>[...] preventing him from posting his putrid comments would still be
>quashing his first amendment rights.

  But no one's talking about preventing people from posting anything.  Last
I heard, anyone can go buy their own computer & post anything they want there.
And they can give accounts to anyone who wants to read their babbling.  They
CAN NOT, however, insist that I pay phone bills/use disk space/waste CPU
cycles to store their stuff and send it all over the world.  Nor can they
demand an account on my system for any purpose, including reading/posting news.

  C'mon, guys, the only reason we have USENET is because the people with the
money and the machines are doing us a favor.  I think it's pretty sad that
so many people take this for granted, and that some people even go so far as
to insist that we've got a God-given *right* to Netnews access.

(Could someone with more knowledge than I have on this subject *please*
 summarize the relationship between our first amendment rights and USENET
 & put it in the "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions" article?)

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