keithe@teklabs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) (10/25/83)
Hey out there! I want to get my 2 cents worth in on net.motss before I unsubscribe from the group. My own preference is definitely heterosexual; I won't ever change. I do not condone homosexuality. I find it to be both unnatural (nature intends intercourse for reproduction) and abnormal (loosely translating, the norm - the majority - of people are not homosexuals). But that's not what I'm here to talk about... While I cannot condone homosexuality, neither can I condone the censorship of ideas, whether in print, film, electronic, whatever. I don't have the right to restrict your discussions; you don't have the right to make me accept your opinions, or lifestyle. You have the right to carry on discussion about any subject, including alternate sexual preferences, and I have the right to eliminate them from my own readership (and from that of my minor children who do not yet have the capability - the maturity - to properly judge the content). I will defend the right for such forums to exist. Elimination of such discussions is inexcuseable censorship. Besides, will we ever learn that depriving someone of what they want - or think they want - serves merely to increase the demand? Have we learned nothing from, for example, the Prohibition Era? For those sites with restrictive administrators (or administrators' bosses), perhaps access to net.motss (and net.singles, and net.jokes, and... and... and...) could be not eliminated but controlled, limited to "off-hours" (whatever that means to computer programmers) much in the way that games are on many sites. The precedent already exists in many sites to allow employees access to facilities during evenings and weekends for "g-jobs" and other employee-interest activities; why not merely extend this to categories mentioned above? Well, like the subject line says: have a good newsgroup. Goodbye. keith ericson at teklabs
sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (10/26/83)
Progress will REALLY be made when we don't have people trumpeting in public the fact that they don't intend to read this newsgroup. Gawd. The bible thumpers on one side, and the "I'm not gay, but" liberals on the other. Frankly, I think newsgroup preferences are strictly private matters that should not be aired in any public forum, least of all USENET. :-) /Steve Dyer decvax!bbncca!sdyer