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>>>>> "Dean" == Dean Cardno <dcardno@intergate.bc.ca> writes:

        Xan> One can possibly think (and rationalize) of the
        Xan> internet as a "superstore" or a collection of
        Xan> specialized stores. Walk down the street of any
        Xan> large city, and you will find many stores that suit
        Xan> your tastes and many that will not. Do you ban some
        Xan> stores and allow others?

    Dean> The analogy of the internet to a store is interesting,
    Dean> but not, I think, quite right.  Your image of walking
    Dean> down a street looking at stores is more to the point...
    Dean> Each ISP is like a store, and offers some, but not all,
    Dean> of the goods produced somewhere in the world.  Each
    Dean> store owner decides what goods he is going to stock,
    Dean> and each ISP decides which newsgroups it will carry...

It seems to me that the ISP should be like the *street* not the
store.  If it is not, what *is* the street?  Do you have to
subscribe to a special uncensored news server if you want a full
selection? Making people read news via telnet seems like a big
waist of bandwidth.

In the U.S. there are nationwide ISPs with radio ads that they
provide "full, uncensored, access to news".  

The problem is that iSTAR seems to not feel any competition.
Deep down lots of people would like to take a peek at anything
that people are making a fuss about, and if there was an
uncensored alternative they would probably prefer it.
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