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> In article <1365@edison.GE.COM> mfs@edison.GE.COM (Pissed Off @ Communistic Site Dictators) writes:
>Damn, this reaganista shit has gone far enough.  This is SUPPOSED
>to be a free country, remember ?  We need different viewpoints
>(even if they are full of shit) to remain that way.  As much as I
>disagreed with scrooge and his goofy postings, it was his right
>to say it.  This is a non-profit medium.  It is a place
>where people can voice their opinions in a semi-anonymous way.
>How can anybody decide what others should hear or read ?

The terms "freedom", "rights", and "censorship" have been so
overused and abused that they can mean anything you like.  I
really would not call it censorship if your doctor won't show
me your medical records, and you are "free" to "censor" your
tax return from me if you wish.  My "rights" don't obligate
you, nor yours, me.

Why is it that you have a "right" to post/read anything on
the net but I don't have a "right" to decide how to run my
business?  Why is it that Scrooge has the "right" to be a jerk
but I do not?  Surely, deciding who uses my machine and in what
manner they do so is my business; presumably I don't have
to give you an account if I don't want to.

I will defend your right to object in the same way I will
defend the sysadm's decision to not let Scrooge post -- it
*is* a free country and it *is* his machine.  If he were
trying to get you kicked off *your* machine for postings
he didn't like I'd be on the other side entirely.

You don't have to like it, you can say "too bad Scrooge is
not around anymore" or "<netadm> is a mean guy" but don't
call him a Communist.  Speaking of which, I never heard
anybody call Reagan a Communist before.  Perhaps you mean
"facist"?

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