Re: Newsgroups closed (Re: Coherent archives are closed)

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From: Industrial Poet
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1991 16:37

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pld@whopper.lcs.mit.edu (Peter L. DeWolf) writes:
> 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."

Rubbish.  You are perfectly free to get those newsgroups from some other
site.

Just ask the UKnet backbone how easy it is to censor downstream sites... Oh,
they certainly wish they had the power to censor.

mathew

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Subject: Re: Newsgroups closed (Re: Coherent archives are closed)
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