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Re: NATHAN and the FAQ Dilemna
bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major) writes:
>> Neither visi.com nor myself advocate any type of censorship, why
>> should you, the community at large, let Steve and his friends
>> (including .* Turley) run your lives or decide what info you should
>> read or not read? Choose for yourself and don't let these people tell
>> you what you need.
>> --
>> Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau LIFE: Lover drechsau@yuck.net
>> Visi: info@visi.com drechsau@Geeks.ORG
>[delurking again]
>Uh, we'd LOVE to choose for ourselves, but your client Mr. Mates is making
>that utterly impossible with his restricted site and now his refusal to
>post *our* usenet FAQ on this group. And you've got the names all wrong
>here. Steve M. *isn't* trying to "run our lives or decide what info we
>should read or not read". NATHAN is. It's very obvious that by siding
>with your client Mr. Mates, you're already advocating censorship.
>[lurking on....]
Not to mention that you're at least breaking US law, and probably the laws of
many other countries as well. As was previous pointed out, putting information
on a web page is considered to be 'publishing' it. Under the law, a
publisher does not have the right to discriminate against people.
He/she/it [;-)] can either make the information available to everyone or
no-one. Anywhere inbetween is discrimination, cut and dried and is breaking
the law.
But then, from what I've heard of visi.com, and the fact you, mr B.J., seem
to care little for breaking the law, I'm not really surprised a like
Nathan is using your ISP.
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