reid@Glacier.ARPA (01/18/85)
<hey--that got your attention, didn't it> 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". -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA
preece@ccvaxa.UUCP (01/22/85)
> 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. ---------- Leaving aside, for the moment, the monumental egocentricity implicit in the belief that your not reading something is equivalent to it's not having been published at all, and the logical contradiction that you somehow know that people are complaining about being censored even though you don't read what they say, let's just point out the simple fact that censorship is the suppression of something, not ignorance of it. As to the seat of the ignorance, I leave that to your imagination. scott preece ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece