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Article #376Re: Only Fascists want censorship!
From: Stephen Boursy
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 00:00
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Forward to bypass ongoing UUNET censorship of newsgroups. 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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 100ecf,2bcd58e9949d4bb,start X-Google-Attributes: gid100ecf,public X-Google-Thread: 113157,55ca3b17af613e65 X-Google-Attributes: gid113157,public X-Google-Thread: 1038e3,2bcd58e9949d4bb,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1038e3,public X-Google-Thread: 1085e3,c0d88cba4baadc60 X-Google-Attributes: gid1085e3,public X-Google-Thread: 10bca1,c0d88cba4baadc60 X-Google-Attributes: gid10bca1,public From: boursy@world.std.com (Stephen Boursy) Subject: Re: Only Fascists want censorship! Date: 1996/05/18 Message-ID: <DrLsuv.B7x@world.std.com> X-Deja-AN: 155438863 references: <4n8cra$kh1@alpha1.chapman.edu> <DrDpyJ.8o9@world.std.com> <DrH4rp.Jrn@blaze.trentu.ca> <319C8B06.4B54@daimi.aau.dk> organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA newsgroups: news.admin.policy,misc.legal,alt.culture.internet,earth.general,alt.culture.virtual