Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"

ISP_Ratings boursy at earthlink.net
Sun Feb 16 14:32:31 PST 1997


Dave Hayes wrote:
> 
>> censorship on cypherpunks.  However, I think most peoples' opinions
>> didn't really turn, or at least people didn't realize how serious
>> things were and didn't really care, until Tim May [someone the many
>> freedom-knights hate] started criticizing this censorship in extremely
>> reasonable messages that were suppressed from both the -edited and
>> -flames mailing list.
> 
> Assuming that is true, that people do not care about censorship until
> a person with an arbitrary reasonability says something, I would say
> that such a group cares not about free speech...even if they think
> they do.

  I agree--and again that is sad.  Hopefully many have learned from 
the experience--that does on occassion really happen.

                           Steve






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