Re: "Freedom Knights" are closet censors

[Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>]

After the fact of the invite doesn't make a difference for the purpose of
our analysis.

I wrote about this (in a column, BTW) because it was an interesting story.

-Declan



On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Dave Hayes wrote:

> > On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Dave Hayes wrote:
> > > Sorry, that *is* the point. If you tell me you are going to disrupt
> > > the list, I am not going to let you on the list...even though you
> > > are easily ignored. 
> > And if Vulis shows Gilmore, though his actions, that he is going to
> > disrupt cypherpunks, Vulis can be prevented from being on the list...even
> > though he is easily ignored.
> 
> Ah, but that's after the fact of the invite. 
> 
> > That's why neither of your actions is, in truth, "censorship."
> 
> Now you are starting to make some sense. So why did you write an
> editor..er...article that focused on his "censorship"?
> ------
> Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org 
> Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet
> 
> Nasrudin loaded his donkey with wood for the fire and instead of sitting in 
> its saddle, sat astride one of the logs.
> "Why don't you sit in the saddle?" someone asked.
> "What? And add my weight to what the poor animal has to carry? My weight is 
> on the _wood_ and it is going to stay there."
>