Xref: utzoo misc.kids:9320 news.misc:3084 misc.misc:6411 talk.politics.misc:27301 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!zinn!ditka!mcdchg!heiby From: heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) Newsgroups: misc.kids,news.misc,misc.misc,talk.politics.misc Subject: Re: alt.sex to become illegal in New Jersey? Message-ID: <21646@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com> Date: 2 Jun 89 00:09:20 GMT References: <3246@looking.UUCP> <3425@tank.uchicago.edu> <5525@bnrmtv.UUCP> <3506@tank.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) Organization: Motorola Microcomputer, Schaumburg, IL Lines: 29 I think that it is very sad that so many people on the net confuse the exercise of property rights with censorship. When a site decides not to devote its disk, comm, and cpu to messages in a particular newsgroup, they are exercising their property rights. They have the right to do with their property as they see fit. Anyone who does not believe that a "person" (including corporate entities) have the right to do with their property as they see fit should go at once and send $1,000 to the "Laser Printer for Ron Heiby" fund. (mailing address upon request) Since I intend to exercise my right to free press on said laser printer, you are trying to censor me if you don't send the money right away. Anyone who does believe that a person has the right to do as they see fit with their property can put their checkbook away. The rest of you, while you're at it, send $500 to the "Telebit Modem for Ron Heiby" fund. I plan to exercise my free speech/press rights with it, too. Some have moaned about how so many of the sites on the net are supported by public funds, directly or indirectly. I suppose a case could be made based on this vague connection. However, do you *really* want "alt.sex, alt.sex.bondage, and alt.drugs" to be your battle cry? I can just see the headlines now.... Anyone on a machine that has decided they will no longer carry some newsgroup(s) is *free* to buy their own machine, modem, and phone line and share those newsgroups with other "right-thinking" persons. -- Ron Heiby, heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com Moderator: comp.newprod "Life is indeed an inexplicable sequence of imponderable surprises."