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From: toml@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.news.group
Subject: Re: mod.all and net.fascism
Message-ID: <195@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 22:15:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: oliveb.195
Posted: Thu Oct 18 22:15:36 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Oct-84 02:34:22 EDT
References: <3886@decwrl.UUCP> <1574@nsc.UUCP> <200@bragvax.UUCP> <371@amdahl.UUCP> 
Reply-To: toml@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long)
Organization: D&L U., Thaumaturgy
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Summary: TTIHLIC & Does it really matter, anyway?

[WORST CASE ASSUMPTION]
Does it really matter if the mod.* groups are fascist?  Everbody still has the
good old anarchistic net.* groups.  It seems to me like people are just crying
because they don't get to insult people anywhere they want.  If you want to
generally be a pest, it is easy enough to do so in the net.* groups.
[MY VIEW OF REALITY]
Actually, I think that the administrators are just there to cut down on the
volume of messages, rather than practicing outright censorship.  Also, anyone
who feels that they are being censored in a mod.* group can always post to the
same net.* group.  There is no such thing as total freedom of speech.  You
could always shout "Fire" in a theater, but that would not be the proper thing
to do.
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I just hope no one reads the documentation and finds out how to post directly
to mod.all groups.
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