Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 08:19:15 06/24/04
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On June 23, 2004 at 05:55:33, José Carlos wrote: >On June 23, 2004 at 05:41:44, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>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? > > As long as tour friend's posters stay under the laws, they must be free to say >whatever they want (there're limits to freedom of speech, like talking about >government secrets, etc, hence I say "under the laws"). If you remove his >webpages because someone threats you and you're scared, you're not violating his >freedom of speech, because you're the owner of the domain and it's your right to >remove his pages. So you're right from a legal point of view. But morally, >you're failing to your friend: you gave him something and now removing it for no >good reason. > If your reason was "I gave you the web pages for you to talk about chess, and >only chess, and now you're posting off topics, so I must remove the pages", >you'd have all the moral rights then. > That's my point. > > José C. Morals go both ways. That friend should recognize he is causing the hoster some problems and do whatever in his power to help compromise and resolve the situation. If he was a true friend, anyway. I wouldn't step all over a friend just to get something I want. Thats just me though.. :)
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