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Morton M. Goldmacher wrote:
>Some internet subscribers will prefer to have their access to some
>newsgroups censored.  I believe it is a good thing for net access
>providers to voluntarily tailor the service they are providing to the
>wants of their subscribers.  The evil to avoid is censorship issuing
>out of the government or the courts.  As long as there can be internet
>providers who continue to serve anything and everything your freedom
>is unthreatened.


      Another naive view. Internet services providers
      will all be forced onto the iSTAR bandwagon. It
      is in there best commercial interests. And even
      if the companies do not formally espouse the
      infinitely dumb iSTAR party line they, in fact,
      practice it every day in the way they deal with
      "problem users". Like me. 

      Once again I say iSTAR is not setting the trend... 
      it's simply going about business as usual and totally
      exploiting the unprotected citizens who utilize this
      Internet thing. Censorship is a creeping illness
      that is very much alive and well. Every ISP is
      practicing it quite effectively. So effectively that
      the police don't even have to lift a finger to
      enforce what are  probably unconstitutional laws.

                     Bob Allisat

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