lazarus@athena.mit.edu (Michael Friedman) (03/10/88)
In article <1365@edison.GE.COM> mfs@edison.GE.COM (Pissed Off @ Communistic Site Dictators) writes: >Damn, this reaganista shit has gone far enough. This is SUPPOSED >to be a free country, remember ? We need different viewpoints >(even if they are full of shit) to remain that way. As much as I >disagreed with scrooge and his goofy postings, it was his right >to say it. This is a non-profit medium. It is a place >where people can voice their opinions in a semi-anonymous way. >How can anybody decide what others should hear or read ? >DOWN WITH CENSORSHIP! DOWN WITH BOZO SITE ADMINISTRATORS! >BRING BACK SCROOGE! WE LOVED TO HATE HIM! Well, don't tell me... Tell the site administrators!! Note: I would like to add a formal request to the person who booted Scrooge to please un-boot him. Unless you get other postings disagreeing, please do so. These are the official opinions Mike Friedman of my organization. So, TOUGH!!
friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) (03/10/88)
> In article <1365@edison.GE.COM> mfs@edison.GE.COM (Pissed Off @ Communistic Site Dictators) writes: >Damn, this reaganista shit has gone far enough. This is SUPPOSED >to be a free country, remember ? We need different viewpoints >(even if they are full of shit) to remain that way. As much as I >disagreed with scrooge and his goofy postings, it was his right >to say it. This is a non-profit medium. It is a place >where people can voice their opinions in a semi-anonymous way. >How can anybody decide what others should hear or read ? The terms "freedom", "rights", and "censorship" have been so overused and abused that they can mean anything you like. I really would not call it censorship if your doctor won't show me your medical records, and you are "free" to "censor" your tax return from me if you wish. My "rights" don't obligate you, nor yours, me. Why is it that you have a "right" to post/read anything on the net but I don't have a "right" to decide how to run my business? Why is it that Scrooge has the "right" to be a jerk but I do not? Surely, deciding who uses my machine and in what manner they do so is my business; presumably I don't have to give you an account if I don't want to. I will defend your right to object in the same way I will defend the sysadm's decision to not let Scrooge post -- it *is* a free country and it *is* his machine. If he were trying to get you kicked off *your* machine for postings he didn't like I'd be on the other side entirely. You don't have to like it, you can say "too bad Scrooge is not around anymore" or "<netadm> is a mean guy" but don't call him a Communist. Speaking of which, I never heard anybody call Reagan a Communist before. Perhaps you mean "facist"? --- Life : Stephen J. Friedl @ V-Systems, Inc./Santa Ana, CA *Hi Mom* CSNet: friedl%vsi.uucp@kent.edu ARPA: friedl%vsi.uucp@uunet.uu.net uucp : {kentvax, uunet, attmail, ihnp4!amdcad!uport}!vsi!friedl Note : I *do* speak for my company. You do not so please don't try.
todd@uop.edu (Dr. Nethack) (03/11/88)
So what keeps him from recieving the groups as mail? And following up by mailing to a group@backbone??
mfs@edison.GE.COM (Pissed Off @ Boneheads) (03/13/88)
OK, I stand corrected. Let me re-phrase myself. In my opinion, if you boot somebody off USENET because you don't like his/her postings, you are an asshole. Simple enough for ya ? And, I suggest the proper word to describe Reagan is JERK.