Author: Steven Swift
Date: 03:19:55 09/07/98
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On September 06, 1998 at 16:12:46, Don Dailey wrote: >On September 06, 1998 at 15:11:40, mick adams wrote: > >>On September 05, 1998 at 22:58:44, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >> >>>On September 05, 1998 at 03:19:38, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>> >>><snip> >>> >>>>Go over to r.g.c.c. and read Sean's stuff, Larry, and you tell me if this group >>>>could use another dose of Sean Evans. >>> >>>Right now, it seems that r.g.c.c. is the place where chess computer people go to >>>vent their feelings. I guess we need a place like that, or we will all go crazy >>>[???]. A pity it has to be there, but it apparently needs to be somewhere. I >>>guess. >>> >>>I really hate it when I get up in the morning, download the new bulletins on >>>r.g.c.c., r.g.c.a, and r.g.c.m., am delighted to find fifty or more unread >> >> >>What you say above,is nonsense,if you wish to censor your computer,feel >>free,censoring individuals,for whatever reason,who freely submit to internet >>communication,is something else.Censoring implies we are not mature enough to >>make our own minds up,and that sucks,in my view. Micky. > > >On this newsgroup, you enter by choice AND BY AGREEMENT that you will >honor the rules and knowing that if you do not your posts will be >removed. This was an agreement YOU made when you signed up. And >this is also a CHOICE people have the right to make. In the abstract, true. Excepting that if CCC is the only place to talk certain details with certain people, the CHOICE is not so much a choice as a forced necessity. > >It sounds like you question peoples right to choose whether they >want to be on a moderated newsgroup. He doesn't question that right. IMO you, as moderator, are the one who questions that right of another person. >But there have been many times >that people have either posted, or remarked to us by email that they >LOVE being able to come to this group and talk FREELY about computer >chess without all the bad stuff. Why is this a bad thing? This is not a bad thing that they could talk freely. Excepting that it is a contradiction in terms. Posters are subject to potential censorship, therefore they can not talk freely in the full sense of that word. >And >why would you want to infringe on their freedom to have this? Their freedom, which is a restricted freedom, is won at the expense of censoring others IMHO. Therefore, you, as moderator, must infringe on individual's freedom, in order to win this limited freedom for others. Steve Swift > > >- Don
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