🚀 go-pugleaf

stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) wrote:
>In article <y-tony-2303960313500001@ppp-75-4.bu.edu>,
>Y. Tony Lee <y-tony@acs.bu.edu> wrote:
>>   I find a problem right here.  What does "unmoderated" mean?  I thought
>>"moderated" means that a person or a small group of people must authorize
>>a posting before it goes public while an "unmoderated" newsgroup mean that
>>authorization is not required.  With this bincancel bot, you are thus
>>giving yourself autorization to moderated, albeit in a limited way.  I
>
>That's right. 
>
>There are a few people, however, who think their objections to seeing
>certain things gives them the right to remove them net-wide. Richard
>started his "retroactive minimal moderation" program by deciding that 
>people who used a certain anonymous server to post didn't have that
>right anymore, so he spent a weekend removing any articles from them
>he could find in the sci hierarchy. Unfortunately for him, he only
>found two, and one was resurrected immediately.

>NO BINARIES is the goal.
>

What is being practiced here is InterNet Vigilantism. Censorship is
not warented, wanted or needed. Particularly by anyone, self appointed, 
and acting unilateraly!