Dave Heil wrote in
link.net:

Mike Coslo wrote:
"KH6HZ" wrote in news:8wOwh.239345$fh6.215432
@newsfe13.lga:

Dave Heil wrote:

Yep. Nobody has an innate right to post to a newsgroup.
Or, as we summarized in our Constitutional Law class in college:

"Your right to free speech does not mean you're entitled to a
pulpit".

You remind me that there is a sizable fraction of people in
the US
who believe that there shouldn't be free speech.

That's not right, Mike. I can write letters to the editors of all the
magazines I want. None of them is obliged to print my letters. I can
stand up in the middle of a movie theater and espouse some political
opinion. I'll be escorted out. I can attempt to heckle some
politician during a speech. I'll be shown the door.

There are venues where you have a right to speak and venues where you
don't have a right to be heard.

Hi Dave,

There certainly are. But we're not talking about a person in a movie
theatre. I'd much prefer to make the decision on whether or not I will
see someone's posts than have someone else make that decision for me.
And there lies the major problem. Those strange folk that live near you
are an obvious censor target, as well as those folk who were posting a
gazillion flames to each other the last year or so. But what about the
moderator who simply doesn't like another person. As an example, Cecil
and Len are in some people's killfiles. But I enjoy both of them very
much. I would assume that anyone who would put Len in a killfile would
also censor his posts. Those "anyones" could be moderators. And Cecil is
an enjoyable person to spar with on occasion, as well as a source of
knowledge.

Heck, I just looked at my bozo bin, and I have a couple hundred
people in there at least. I'm a censoring junkie. One weird post about
what some guy wants to do to another guy earns a permanent trip to the
bin.

But I'm deciding what shows up on my screen. Others may want other
people to decide what they see or don't see. Sheeple.

Hence my stance that there is a sizable number of people who
beleive that free speech is a nuisance.

Honestly, what would you do if you didn't have Len to fight with? I
suspect you would get bored and eventually stop posting.


- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -