Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 02:41:44 06/23/04
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On June 23, 2004 at 04:06:23, José Carlos wrote: >On June 21, 2004 at 17:44:51, Richard Pijl wrote: > >>Up till now the CCC moderators allowed all kinds of Gothic chess discussions. >>Both promotion messages of gothic chess, rule discussions and discussions about >>the status and boundaries of the Gothic Chess patent. >>However, after deletion of two messages (that only contained one-liner personal >>attacks on other members) Ed Trice let me know that he might include our sponsor >>and host in future legal battles if we would allow the patent discussions. >> >>Therefor the moderators have decided no longer to allow discussions on Gothic >>chess on this Forum. >> >>Richard Pijl >>Moderator. > > If the cause to forbid gothic chess talks here is that it is off topic, I'm >fine with it. But if the cause is a direct threat, I must disagree. I don't know >anything at all about that gothic thing, and I couldn't care less, but expect >freedom of speech to be on top of all. And then, restirct it by the rules of the >forum, not by a threat. > > José C. Consider this situation. You run a web server on your home computer. You have a friend who wants to start a small website and you allow him to use your web server. After a while, your friend starts posting unpopular political views to his website about the war in Iraq (or whatever), and people start harrassing you, calling you at home making threats against you and your family because you are the one who owns the domain name. You decide to remove your friend's website from your web server so that you can go back to your normal, peaceful life. Is that your right to remove his webpages from your web server, or are you violating your friend's freedom of speech?
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