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From: RWC102@PSUVM (R. W. F. Clark)
Newsgroups: news.misc,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Freedom of hate
Message-ID: <81873RWC102@PSUVM>
Date: 17 Apr 89 19:34:44 GMT
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In <1215@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>If the government is going to provide any sort of forum for discussion,
>it needs to provide it on an equal basis to ALL parties -- no matter
>how repugnant the content.

Again, what's this government shit?

'Partially supported by public funds' does not mean
'co-opted by Big Brother,' however much you want it
to mean that.

C'mon, the government doesn't, legally speaking, even
have a controlling interest in PSU.

PSU is _not_ the government.  The USEnet is _not_ a
public forum.  Farmers are not the government, although
they're partially federally subsidized.

Duh.

>If they don't want to do it, they shouldn't
>provide such a forum.  You may recall a while back one of the Mid-West
>cities where a white supremacist group was taking advantage of a
>"public access" cable channel, and a number of liberals in town were
>trying to get these scum taken off the air, without having to give
>up "public access" for everyone else.

So what's this have to do with anything?

fc