🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <2n63gt$5i3@panix.com>, Clay Shirky <clays@panix.com> wrote:
>In <CnAwqw.5L6@reptiles.org> jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer) writes:
>>yeah, smuggling drugs and guns across the border is pretty simple these days
>>too.  does the fact that you can't stop it make it ok?
>
>No. But this is information, which is sacred.

sacred?

fightig for the right to smear information anywhere you like, without respect
for who the information effects is not sacred.

sacred?

should everyone have access to your psychiatrist's notes?
your doctor's notes?

fighting for the freedom of information is one thing.

but i think that that fight should be tempered by respect for what
information needs to be spread widely, and what should be kept private.

what purpose does it serve to have people spreading the nasty details of
the holmonka trial?

both holmonka and teale are under arrest.  they will be tried.

spreading this information around serves no purpose but to titilate(sp?)
the public.

freedom of information zealots are pushing this issue for no good reason
than the fact that the court tried to keep the details secret.

i wish these same zealots would push for full, unencumbered access to
the information related to JFK and Iran/Contra.

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