With the right to speak freely comes the right to decline to speak. John, as the owner of the computer maintaining the cypherpunks list, has the right to decline to speak and to kick off a user who violates the covenant of the mailing list. The kicked-off user has the right to start his own mailing list with different standards. If he likes, he can establish the rules as a type of contract to which participants must agree. And observers can criticize either or both of them. Is this censorship, double standards, and hypocrisy? I think not. I say this as someone who has no animus towards Vulis. I've communicated with him cordially in private email. -Declan On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Gary Howland wrote:
But there's probably a logical reason for taking this "action", although it can apparently be easily circumvented, even though many of us don't understand what that logic could be.
Yes. If only you knew what they knew ... :-)
The mail filter is dead! Long live censorship, double standards and hypocrisy!
Gary
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