Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8554 news.sysadmin:1795 comp.mail.misc:1446 rec.humor.d:1269 news.misc:2236 misc.misc:4074 soc.culture.misc:484 soc.misc:952 comp.mail.uucp:2443 news.admin:4159 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!dewey.soe.berkeley.edu!oster From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.misc,rec.humor.d,news.misc,misc.misc,soc.culture.misc,soc.misc,comp.mail.uucp,news.admin Subject: Re: bigoted racist misuse of email and computer accounts must be dealt with Summary: No! Message-ID: <27015@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 3 Dec 88 11:54:34 GMT References: <10676@ihlpa.ATT.COM> <1548@buengc.BU.EDU> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) Organization: School of Education, UC-Berkeley Lines: 12 I am Jewish. I think the two people who sparked this exchange of messages are criminal fools. But, if we begin censoring messages where will it stop? Once we allow any form of censorship, censorship spreads and spreads until nothing may be said. This net, which has the potential to be a great forum of ideas, where everyones voice may be heard, will be spoiled and silenced. Or worse, filled only with what is acceptable to the people in power. I would rather stand with criminal fools than with the censors, for in the end, the censors are the worse criminals.