John Young wrote:
Sandy's e-mailed several of us who've sent messages about Vulis's ploy to put Sandy in a conflict-of-interest bind
It's probably worth saving accusations of censorship for the real thing What fucking planet have you been living on, shit-for-brains? We're not talking about "accusations," here. We're talking about
Did Sandy happen to mention how the evil Dr. Vulis managed to twist his impressionable young mind so that his only concern about libel is centered around his employer? Did Sandy mention why his employer went nuclear over the mention of the 'b-d' word by an individual whom his employees on the list regularly label as a troublemaker and a nut case? (Methinks they doth protest _too_ much?) Did Sandy mention that his employer is in the postion of owning the cypherpunks.com domain-name and is in a great postion to profit by controlling and/or destroying the cypherpunks list? Did Sandy mention that when his own takeover of the list (by virtue of 'moving' the subscribers into a list filtered by himself) faltered, by becoming an open joke, that one of his fellow employees called for the "killing" of the list? Did Sandy mention that the pecker-tracks of his employers minions leave a sordid trail across the whole face of this whole censorship farce? Gee, John, I wish that I had crypto software to sell, and employees who were in control of the reputation capital of the cypherpunks list. I wish that I had a domain named cypherpunks.com waiting to capitalize on the cypherpunks name to sell my crypto software. Of course, some asshole somewhere might regard this as a "ploy" to profit from creating misfortune for the cypherpunks. They might even think that I had a hand in that misfortune. posts by average list subscribers who are coming forward and speaking out about the facts surrounding the misappropriation of their posts in order to further the private interests of Sandy. We're talking about the suppression of postings which Question Authority. We're talking about shit-canning postings without informing the list, because the actions are reprehensible. We're talking about censorship which, in the censor's own words, is not based on crypto-relevancy, but a changing morass of ill-defined 'Sandy rules' (or 'Sandy Rules!', if you prefer). We're talking about robotic censorship where those who do not bend under the jackboots suppressing free speech on the cypherpunks list are auto-botted to cypherpunks-dontsaybadthingsaboutmyemployer. Your posts are usually fairly intelligent, so I have no idea why you are wasting your own reputation capital attempting to defend an inept, lame-duck censor who is too cowardly to defend his own vile actions. Instead, he declares that he has absolutely no interest in filtering out the "Make Money Fast" and "Penis-Picture" garbage for list members if he can't use his usurped-power to slam the jackboots down on any niggling detail that doesn't serve his own private interests. Cuckoo (<-- Dr. Vulis 'made' me use this name.)