From: "roger" <cephalus-AT-uswest.net>
Subject: Re: A Fascist Victory At Yahoo
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 10:06:55 -0800



-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Kneisel <tallpaul-AT-nyct.net>
To: anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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Date: Friday, February 25, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: Anti-Fascist Victory At Yahoo


>Word just came in that Yahoo has agreed to remove the violence-oriented
>hate clubs to whom they've been providing free organizing services.
>


you are a moron, paul.  you've "won" nothing but a precedent that speech can
be banned.  not that yahoo was ever much of a free forum anyway, but you've
just further entrenched those who subscribe to klan and neo-nazi ideas in
their psycho-bunker on the one hand, and alienated those of us who are truly
anti-authoritarian on the other.  i realize that anti-authoritarianism is an
alien concept for you, but try to get your head around it.  it means letting
those with whom you disagree have their say.  yes, fight facsism, but don't
use facsist tactics.  enlisting the aid of corporate power to muzzle your
political opponents is 1) tactically counter-productive (there are still
plenty of outlets for facsist propaganda that are, even as i write this,
making a convincing case about the censorship of the "fascist" left; and 2)
ideologically disingenuous.  do you believe individuals should be able to
speak their minds in the public spaces of our society, paul?  or only those
with whom you agree?  will you try to ban MY speech next?  you're part of
the problem, paul.  you've shown you can't be trusted.  off to the gulag
with you.  sorry, that's your line, isn't it?  you have far more in common
with those you profess to oppose than you do with those you ostensibly
appeal to for help.

roger