Who can tax a satellite?

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Fri Jul 13 08:48:46 PDT 2001


Yes. Clearly killfiling is a concept coterminous with censorship. I urge 
Reese to expand this campaign to people who change the channel too.

-Declan


At 05:37 AM 7/13/01 -1000, Reese wrote:
>At 04:40 AM 7/13/01, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >It doesn't bother me either way, so I have no real preference. (If such
> >juvenalia did bother me, I would have resigned from cpunx 6 years ago.)
> >
> >But you should know that it does make everyone feel a strong urge
> >to killfile you. Consider this a fair warning.
>
>Everyone?  They've all told you?  Whatever.
>
>I think anyone who objects to profanity spoken out loud in their home
>is within their rights to take action, but anyone who would censor the
>rest of America as well (on a list absent a declared religious overtone
>or theme especially) is possessed of a certain personal problem that
>goes beyond a simple decision to refrain from use of profanity.
>
>I'm not worried about being killfiled, it doesn't stop me from reading
>what others have to say and I am free to agree or disagree with what
>those others have to say.  Free speech, even for the dumb (and censorious).
>
>Reese
>
>
>





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