[news.admin] yanking net.access

richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (09/20/88)

In article <1566@eos.UUCP> timelord@eos.UUCP (G. Murdock Helms) writes:
>
>There has recently been a tendency towards suppression on the net that is
>chilling in its implications.  I am referring specifically to the removal
>of at least one person's net access, perhaps even his account, due to
>several complaints about his postings.  The unpleasant aspect of this is
>that the person in question was not posting overtly offensive material to
>the net.  Yes, he produced a lot of articles, and yes, he could be 
>somewhat irritating, but there are other individuals in many groups who
>can be accused of the same faults.  The point is: someone was able to convince
>the sysadmin of that machine to remove a user who had not done anything 
>explicitly 'wrong'.
>

You're overlooking the obvious. He moved, and is still on the net
posting from a different site.


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