File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2003/anarchy-list.0302, message 125


Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:55:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: censorship...
From: "Kristopher Barrett" <kbarrett-AT-cotse.com>


>
>
> Maldoror wrote:
>
>> you mean you can get kicked off of this list?
>
> Not that i know of - and i'm the Spoon Collective member
> responsible for the list.
>
>> i find that interesting that this list would censor people.
>> furthermore, who sets the censorship guidelines? plus
>> doesn't that sort of go against the whole notion of
>> freedom and free speech to allow such censorship?
>
> There are lots of good reasons to limit the kinds of
> expression that take place in certain kinds of forums.
> It depends on what you want or need to get done.
>
> Freedom of association also means freedom to not
> associate, or to set limits to mutual associations.
>
> However, this has always been an open forum. That
> it remain that way was a condition of Spoon taking
> over the technical management of the list.
>
> -shawn

Thanks for the clarification. Are their any kind of restrictions on this
list? Other than blatently commercial spam?



-- 
Regards,
Kristopher Barrett    http://www.cotse.net/users/kbarrett




   

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