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dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes) writes:
>You can't provide a service ("millions of people communicating
>many-to-many"), selectively restrict that service based on some
>arbitrary standard, and still call yourself providing a service.

I disagree with this assertion.  They indeed provide a service; they
just don't provide it to everyone.  I see no reason to interpret
"provide a service" as necessarily meaning the same thing as "provide
a service to everyone".

>This is why I keep saying you people don't understand free speech.

"Free" on whose dime?

>>Perhaps people should use the service they're paying for rather than trying
>>to mooch off other people, then.

>Do you realize just how controlling the "those who have money make the
>rules" paradigm is?

So whose free speech are you paying for nowadays?

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