Re: NATHAN and the FAQ Dilemna

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

In article <619cn9$lin$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>, pfg@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU
(Paul Francis Gilbert) wrote:

> 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.
> 

Paul:  thanks for your support on this point, but I'm *not* the visi.com
administrator--Mr. Mike Horwath, named above my text, is!

--bj
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