Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site Glacier.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!Glacier!reid 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 Article-I.D.: Glacier.2693 Posted: Thu Jan 17 19:58:29 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 00:38:41 EST Distribution: net Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab Lines: 16To 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". -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA