🚀 go-pugleaf

boursy@earthlink.net (ISP_Ratings) wrote:

: Kristian Tanner,Head Librarian wrote...
: :
: :leos@hopper.unh.edu (Leo G Simonetta) wrote:
: :
: ::The first amendment restricts the _government_ from setting bounds
: ::on free speech.  A business can say that if you want to use its
: ::facilities you may only post in Urdu or that you must follow any
: ::set of rules it pleases.  You, of course, are free to take your 
: ::business to another provider.

: ::I am in no way affiliated with the ISP in question!

:   We're talking Neosoft right?

Right.

: :What a surprise! 

: :Who wants to be affiliated with an ISP that supports censorship, 

:  Other censors I'd imagine.

: :and restricts its users free speech?

:  What a repulsive business.  

Soon enough, no ISP in the world can afford to censor or control what their
users want to say on Usenet. There's too much competition for that.

In some providers the system administrators are nothing but wet eared,
censorous, Web-surfing newbies who don't even know what Usenet _really_ is, 
or what it's supposed to be.

A forum where everybody can express their feelings about _anything_,
and post _anything_ they want, and be responsible for their thoughts, 
feelings and written words only to the readers and themselves.

Isn't it too fucking dangerous?

-- 
Kristian M. Tanner     < Head Librarian >

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a
suitable application of high explosives.