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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Obligations (Re: Freedom of hate)
Message-ID: <3763@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 8 Apr 89 14:02:54 GMT
References: <14130@gryphon.COM> <8132@chinet.chi.il.us> <8154@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <8154@chinet.chi.il.us>, patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson) writes:
> If you choose to obligate yourself regards Usenet by agreeing with some other
> site to pass their traffic, or you obligate yourself to display some
> news group, then if some site is willing to originate Whitehead's messages,
> you are obligated to put them on your machine not from any obligation to
> Whitehead, but to the sites up/downstream expecting to get the feed as you
> got it without alterations/deletions in the interim, and/or the users 
> expecting to see the news group intact.

I have no problem with the rest of your message, but this paragraph seems
to imply that every site on the net has the obligation to pass any message
originating from a site upstream.

I dispute that. No site other than uunet has entered into any legal agreement
to provide a feed. No commercial site has any first-amendment obligation to
pass objectionable messages.

How do you justify this paragraph.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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