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In article <PLD.91Jul21175336@whopper.lcs.mit.edu> pld@mcrc.mot.com writes:
>Wolfgang wrote:
>> Until further notice, any usenet articles posted to or received by
>> this machine for groups dealing with Coherent, Apple, or AT&T
>> computers will be bit-bucketed.  No articles in any of these groups
>> will be sent up or down stream to any site.
>
>At first glance, this seems to be yet another example of "Company <X>
>is being bad, so let's punish the users of Company <X>'s machines."
>Very similar to the FSF boycott of Apple, et. al.
>
>It goes farther, though.  It says: "Your site is downstream from mine,
>and I have the power to censor what you read based on MY Politically
>Correct viewpoint."
>
>That is scary.
	How can this be censorship when your site is free to arrange a feed
from another source. What you're saying isd that sites must carry groups you w
want, whether the upstream site wasnts them or not. 
That is scary.

	John Henders
	Vancouver,B.C.