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Freedom of expression and the angry mob

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From: Stephen Boursy
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 00:00
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In article <143526@cup.portal.com>,  <James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com> 
wrote:
>ab330@torfree.net (Bob Allisat) writes:
>
>>         Freedom of expression is a funny thing.
>>         No matter how many people are against it
>>         our right to speak freely remains. Stand
>>         pat Steve. Censorship is insideous and
>>         often takes the form of polite requests
>>         to shut the fuck up.
>>
>>         In solidarity,
>>
>>         Bob Allisat
>
>
>Just on the off-chance that these are not trolls,
>I would like to ask Bob if he even knows the definition of "censorship"?
>
>You might want to take a look in a good dictionary.
>Telling someone to shut up is not censorship.
>Criticism is not censorship.
>Editing is not censorship.
>

	Angry mobs trying to shout someone down is certainly 
a brand of censorship--one of the abhorant in fact and one
frequently accepted by proponants of so-called 'netettiquette'.
In fact--some of them even write books or have publically funded
TV shows on netettiquette and then flame away.

				Steve
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From: boursy@world.std.com (Stephen Boursy)
Subject: Freedom of expression and the angry mob
Date: 1995/08/13
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