george torwell <bpmcontrol@gmail.com> wrote:
newb here, wasnt that the reason the original list died? not the hate speech, the censorship of unpopular opinions <and competing products>? arent we trying to re insert the punk into cypherpunk? show me that punk aint dead list... <or send me hate mail. in true cypherpunk spirit>
My recollection is that it was a combination of people drifting away onto other lists with a less, ahem, combative spirit, and many of the old-timers losing interest. That the latter was coincident with many of the CDR nodes going down was probably no coincidence, as it were. In any case, there's been no censorship 'round these parts except the now-standard filtering of posts by nonmembers (known remailers are also whitelisted). If someone gets truly abusive I'm sure we could vote them off the island, as it were, but in most cases I'm pretty sure the community should be able to defend itself without resorting to moderation. -=rsw