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Re: Only Fascists want censorship!

#376
From: Stephen Boursy
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 00:00
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In article <319C8B06.4B54@daimi.aau.dk>,
\\rn Einar Hansen <oehansen@daimi.aau.dk> wrote:
>TWYG wrote:
>> 
>> boursy@world.std.com (Stephen Boursy) writes:
>> >In article <4n8cra$kh1@alpha1.chapman.edu>,
>> >Howard R. Olson <hrolson@nexus.chapman.edu> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>         Any advocate of censorship is clearly a crypto-fascist if not
>> >>openly fascist. There is no borderline other than the whim of the State
>> >>to prevent censorship from spreading.All those who advocate censorship
>> >>are in violation of their oath to protect and defend the constitution.
>> >>If they have not taken such an oath they should be watched carefully by all
>> >>true Americans.....
>> >
>...
>> 
>>  isn't corporate fascism a little redundant? it's
>>  already obvious that corporate power is organized
>>  in a pronounced top-down fashion, the real threat
>>  is in such extreme top-down politics shaping the
>>  kind of society we live in. the political sway of
>>  the multinational corporation is a major threat
>>  to anything wishing to be called democracy, and
>>  shouldn't be underestimated in any way...
>> 
>>  twyg
>
>Good old word "Democracy"...
>
>Having a licence to carry a gun, doesn't give you the right to
>use that gun to kill people at will.  And just because a cop
>comes along and takes the gun away from you, after you just
>killed a nice old lady with it, doesn't mean the cop is a
>fascist... and just because a group of politicians, want to
>make laws on guns, to try and hinder that more "crazy" dorks
>can go buy guns, and shoot old ladies... doesn't mean that
>they are the representatives of corporate fascism... just
>that they miss the point, that the problem doesn't lie
>with the gun, but the people that use it.
>
>The Internet has been used, to violate the rights of inviduals
>intentionally, by a large group of internet network providers.
>It has been an uncontrolled path of information, that many
>dorks have used to retrieve and send information on individuals,
>to defamine characters, and cause other problems.  Putting up
>censorship, does not solve the problem... as the problem lies
>with the people, who so do act.  And putting up a big brother,
>to watch everybodys every move, will again tramp on somebodys
>privacy.
>
>Yet, some policy enforcement has to exist... to provide
>remedies for victims.
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From: boursy@world.std.com (Stephen Boursy)
Subject: Re: Only Fascists want censorship!
Date: 1996/05/18
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