1993-11-15 - Against limiting free speech on public networks

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From: henry strickland <strick@osc.versant.com>
To: cman@IO.COM (Douglas Barnes)
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UTC Datetime: 1993-11-15 20:00:31 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 12:00:31 PST

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From: henry strickland <strick@osc.versant.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 12:00:31 PST
To: cman@IO.COM (Douglas Barnes)
Subject: Against limiting free speech on public networks
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# ... who (like me) is not pleased 
# that state funds are going to subsidize someone's highly disruptive, insane, 
# quasi-religious rants; ...

Censoring public nets from unpopular viewpoints is not what cypherpunks
should be advocating.

If we cannot practice either tolerance or inbox-filtering in our own
group, we cannot expect the rest of the world to agree with our ideas
for free speech nets.

						strick





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