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From: reid@Glacier.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: censorship: you are all full of sh*t
Message-ID: <2693@Glacier.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 19:58:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 17 19:58:29 1985
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Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab
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To those of you who are worried about your precious words being censored,
what you don't realize is that you are already being censored. You are being
censored because I don't read what you write and therefore it doesn't matter
what you say. There are hundreds of thousands of people out here who have
long since lost patience with your idiotic "uncensored" bullshit and who
have committed the ultimate act of censorship by refusing to read what you
write. You don't have a forum, you don't have any readers, and nobody is
listening. How is moderation going to change that? It's going to do a "source
quench" (to borrow a networking term) so that the things that nobody is
reading anyhow don't get sent. In computer science we don't call this
"censorship" we call it "optimization" or "dead code elimination".
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	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA