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[ANON] War in rec.guns
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* Reply to msg originally in TlkPolGuns
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> -=> Quoting John Nieder <=-
> Secondly, a lot of folks do not feel easy about posting to ANY
> gun-related list or group because of employer, social or other prejudice
> to which they may be subjected. If a [email protected]
> wants to use a simple remailer for putting a little shade on his
> participation, I don't feel it's anyone else's business; "caution is not
> cowardice and carelessness is not courage." More importantly, it's
> nobody else's _problem_ as long as the content of the post is not
> objectionable.
Jo> So censorship is allowable if the post is objectionable?
I didn't say that, nor mean it. All I said was that there isn't a
_problem_ unless it's in the content, just as with any other message in
a newsgroup. The fact that a remailer is used in itself doesn't create
a problem in its posting of an otherwise benign message. See?
Jo> Wouldn't
Jo> that mean the moderator has to make more subjective judgements?
I don't know, but if he was killing messages, he'd at least have to have
a reason. Someone's address isn't one. The moderator in question here
(rec.guns) subjectively censors my messages because of content, if
that's your point.
Jo> How
Jo> long would it be before someone started yelling "outst the moderator"
Jo> due to "subjective rejection criterea"?
Well, I for one already am. Rejection of otherwise benign technical
posts for no other reason than having been gated through a remailer,
even non-anonymously with Reply-To: fields and sigs, is about as
subjective and arbitrary a rejection criterion as I can personally
imagine, especially in view of all the absolutely junk posts that do
pass muster.
Jo> I assume that some of this
Jo> is with reguards to rec.guns.
Most of it, yes, at the moment.
Jo> The moderator there does an excellent
Jo> job even if a little too much political stuff occasionally creeps in.
Particularly his irrational fear of remailered posts. Pure politics.
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