On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:27:40 -0400, "Duncan" <Duncan@nospam.com>
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>"PC" <PC@Minneapolis.mn.us> wrote in message
>news:X9idnUvBA647EMXVnZ2dnUVZ_s_inZ2d@comcast.com...
>> Andrew Como wants to shut down Usenet. Verizon, Time Warner, and others
>> have agreed to limit Usenet access. Some are going so far as to eliminate
>> the entire alt.* hierarchy. This includes sports newsgroups. Write your
>> congressman, storm the governor's mansion, do something!
>>
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9964895-38.html
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>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9967119-38.html
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>Well, after seeing all the slander, gossip, name-calling & antagonism on
>usenet...... maybe killing it off isn't such a bad thing after all.
>Something needs to be done in this country (USA) to make it more civil. The
>current Slander/Defamation laws just aren't work. People just love The Jerry
>Springer Show, Dr. Phil, the tabloid gossip, the character attacks common in
>politics and on usenet... just look at your own responses to people who
>disagree with you PC, you attack them personally instead of trying to
>present a legitimate argument to support your cause. (and I just did it to
>you as well).
> Microsoft use to operate a gaming zone (www.zone.com) with full chat
>features but they were over-ran with idiots insulting other people 'just for
>fun'. It's still there but the chat features are gone. If I owned usenet it
>would be gone too or at least moderated or requiring EVERYONE to be clearly
>identified. This Slander/gossip/name-calling/antagonism Bullshit is
>destroying our country; our civilization.
> In ancient times... ancient Rome or Biblical Israel for example.... they
>use to kill the rumormongers & antagonists. Here in the USA the average
>citizen has virtually no protection what-so-ever. Yes, they can file a
>Slander/Defamation of Character lawsuit (if you are not a TV celebrity or
>politician) but good luck with that... everyone's life gets ruined with that
>while the onlookers get their rocks off. "Oh I heard that, I heard this!!!!
>I heard that too... it must be true then!!!!" People just love it. You fine
>folks did it to Kordell Stewart in here... Ooh, He's Gay!!!! (even though he
>isn't). You damaged that mans life and he'll have to live with that forever.
>(I didn't want him to be the starting QB either but destroying/damaging
>someone's life over it???
> Now I don't want to hear this bullshit about 'Freedom of Speech'.... if
>people are out there negatively intruding into other peoples lives by saying
>things that aren't true (he's gay, she has aids, they're crackheads, she has
>herpes .... go look at some of the websites set up by college kids) or
>things that are merely designed to hurt other people, it needs to be
>stopped. Then maybe we won't have 12 years olds on My Space committing
>suicide because people said horrible untrue things about them that were
>totally intended to injure & wound (Are you listening Flipper???)
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> All right, folks.... that's my opinion under free speech. You may begin the
>person attacks and name-calling now.
Well This is not the Forum to go into dept on this but you have to
realize what you speak of is censorship. Just look around the word.
just because some one or some thing is offensive to you does not mean
its offensive to some one else. Learn to ignore what you need to or
start a forum that you can moderate. But don't impose your views on
everyone else.
Remember when ever you take away someone's rights or tell them what
they cant do you inevitably give up you own rights as well. Its a
slippery slope. OBVIOUSLLY if laws are broken that's another thing.
The whole of a free society should dictate what's reasonable. Not the
moral minority or a minority group of any kind.
Its just plan dangerous and history as well as current events are full
of examples of how detrimental censoring and posing your will on
someone else is to a society, people and the word in general.