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From: roy@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy J. Mongiovi)
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: STARGATE (READ THIS!)
Message-ID: <35@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 10:44:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 18 10:44:43 1985
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Well, I think all this upset about the stargate is pretty interesting.
151 line replies to a 119 line flames are pretty interesting too.  I
have a couple of comments to make about this, but I don't really have
any opinions since it isn't my position to give any....

Certainly the people who are paying for the phone charges required to
move the great volume of news around are justified in looking for ways
to cut expenses.  It would be better to have stargate than to drop
usenet altogether.  This is been a nice thing (unmoderated, that is),
but I can certainly understand that lots of people may consider that
it is being abused.  But that's sort of human nature, isn't it?

However, I must say that whether you call it moderation or censorship,
the act remains the same.  Someone else gets to decide whether or not
my message is "OK".  Even a benevolent dictator is a dictator, and some
of the worst have started out with good intentions.  So I can certainly
see that there is cause for concern here, maybe not today, but tomorrow.
So don't be so quick to say "it couldn't happen", because others have
said the same thing in the past.

I think what is necessary is that one side must stop beating its breast
and protesting its innocence, and the other side must stop fomenting a
revolt.  This demands discussion, but lets try to keep our heads, eh?
-- 
Roy J. Mongiovi.	Office of Computing Services.		User Services.
Georgia Institute of Technology.	Atlanta GA  30332.	(404) 894-6163
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