From: patriot-AT-mip.net
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 20:10:10 -0200
Subject: Re: never again


One other thought.  It's a fallacy to say that "the people who use the
internet are a society".  They are not, they are merely a large group of
isolated individuals who have NO "group mores" or other points of agreement.

At 11:10 AM 12/3/96 -0500, you wrote:
>-- [ From: Mark S. Segal * EMC.Ver #2.5.1 ] --
>
>The people who use the internet are a society. That society was asked to
>vote whether or not it wanted have this kind of hate literature. The
>majority of the society as a body decided no. This is not censorship.
>I think that when it comes to hate literature that it is a very nice
>thing to discuss the philosophy of protection of an individuals right to
>chose what they are exposed to. And it is very nice to talk about it in
>the abstract.
>Problem comes when you are the object of that literature, and that you
>are perceived as something sub human without any rights of existence.
>Hate literature, has effects. Historically, and currently. It has helped
>to kill, historically and currently. Why support it? 
>We can recognize hate literature.
>It is not censorship to say I don't want that in my "society".  
>Mark
>
>
>  --- Personal replies to: NUJE73A-AT-prodigy.com (MR MARK S SEGAL)
>  --- List replies to:     puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>  --- Admin commands to:   majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>
>
David M. Adams
591 Old Stage Road
Frederick, Maryland, 21703



  --- Personal replies to: patriot-AT-mip.net
  --- List replies to:     puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
  --- Admin commands to:   majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu