gf@dasys1.UUCP (G Fitch) (05/18/88)
I gather not too many of you all believe in free speech.
OK, if you don't believe in free speech, what do you
believe in?
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New York City, NY, USA (212) 879-9031 {sun}!hoptoad/csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) (05/19/88)
In article <4480@dasys1.UUCP> gf@dasys1.UUCP (G Fitch) writes: >I gather not too many of you all believe in free speech. Oh, we all believe in free speech just fine. USENET speech, on the other hand, is hideously expensive. :-( (No, I don't need anyone to tell me how much this message cost.) <csg>
chuckc@trojan (Charles Crapuchettes) (05/19/88)
In article <4480@dasys1.UUCP> gf@dasys1.UUCP (G Fitch) writes: >I gather not too many of you all believe in free speech. >OK, if you don't believe in free speech, what do you >believe in? > >-- >G Fitch {uunet}!mstan\ >The Big Electric Cat {ihnp4,harvard,philabs}!cmcl2!cucard!dasys1!gf >New York City, NY, USA (212) 879-9031 {sun}!hoptoad/ Free Speech is great. It allows you to say anything you choose to however many hundred people will listen to you, so long as you don't restrain them to listen to you. Spending everyone else's money so you can say anything you please to 180,000 people is not free speech, it is theft. It is identical to someone making you a collect phone call, and not allowing you to refuse it (such as if each of the people with 976-xxxx numbers could go down the list of all people in the US with a phone, call them, and charge anyone who answers $2. After thousands of such charges per household...) Anyone who does not like the setup on USENET is welcome to start their own BBS or pay to use someone else's. I am disgusted by all the flames directed at the people who are paying to provide a service to all of us. ----{ Addresses which may work }------{ Standard disclaimers, jokes, etc. }---- SINET : m_sjs::crapuchettes InterNet: chuckc%sentry@spar.slb.com InterNet: crapuchettes%mother@spar.slb.com uucp : {hplabs,decvax,ucbvax,pyramid,purdue,labrea,sun,ihnp4,...}! decwrl!spar!sentry!chuckc US Mail : Charles Crapuchettes, Schlumberger Technologies (ATE Div.) 1601 Technology Dr., San Jose, CA 95110-1397 phone : (408) 998-0123 x2615
stacy@mcl.UUCP (Stacy L. Millions) (05/19/88)
In article <4480@dasys1.UUCP>, gf@dasys1.UUCP (G Fitch) writes: > I gather not too many of you all believe in free speech. > ... I do beleive in free speech, but the net is not free! It cost a great deal to people like myself who pay for the resources, and that cost is spread out over the entire net. Every time some yahoo wants to pop off it costs. If you want free speech take a soap box to the park! -- "IBM Personal System/2. It's like having 256,000 crayons in one box." For those of you who are still doing your business reports with crayons! S. L. Millions ..!uunet!mcl!stacy