From: Rich Graves <rcgraves@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:42:48 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: [NOISE] If the shoe fits, wear it [VULIS]
Message-ID: <199611052140.QAA09882@spirit.hks.net>
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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
> 
> I've pointed out already that apparently John is not, so far,
> filtering out my submissions to the c-punks list.

Correct. It's just a formal way of saying you're unwelcome, really. 
Shoo.

> However I'd like to take exception with the two claims made in
> the articles cc'd to me so far:
> 
> A that only governments can censor;
> 
> B that post-factum punishment for "inappropriate" speech is not
> censorship.

I agree with your objections, probably because you're attacking straw 
men.

> Certainly Disney owned WABC and was within its rights to censor it.
> Likewise John Gilmore is within his rights to destroy his own
> credibility and to expose his own hypocricy.

Yes, this gets to my point. Private censorship tells more about the 
censor than about the censored. In this case, John acted properly, and 
his credibility has only been enhanced. You are of course free to rant 
and rave about his hypocrisy, but expecially since you'll always be able 
to post to the list, at least under a nym (the only thing he's prevented 
is your reading the list under your own name), you're only proving 
yourself to be an idiot.

- -rich
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