🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <2360@molokai.sw.mcc.com> werner@molokai.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>In article <7319@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
>> our possession are more than accustomed to overly sensitive companies
>> threatening us with legal action and economic sanctions.  As far as I'm
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>		ALARMIST
>> Increased marketing awareness of the networks can only lead to
>						^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>						   WRONG
>> increased pressure to suppress critical messages.
>	where is your data to proof these allegations, Tim?

Seems to me that their used to be useful comments to the net
from Joel West until something related to threats of legal
action concerning a message of his caused him to stop posting
altogether.

Although not exactly the same thing, there is also the furor
over the racist/sexist material in the jokes group that has,
due to threats of legal action, caused it to be banned in some
areas.

I am not sure there is any solution to all this.  The wider the audience
the more likely there is to be someon who will not just be offended and
not just flame, but actually use the assorted judicial and
administrative monkey wrentches available for gumming things up.
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