Re: No forbidden topics - Re: Hey, I'm on dilbert.com

From: Michael S. Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 07:13:05 MST


Russell Whitaker wrote:
>
> >From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
> >WARNING: THIS IS NOW OFFICIALLY A DEES-TOXIC MESSAGE THREAD. Please
> >proceed to exi-freedom where you can talk about what you would do if you
> >belonged to an uncensored mail list.
> >
> [SNIP]
>
> I believe that Greg and E. Shawn (as well as frequent
> poster Harvey) have recently expressed
> that the Extropians mailing list is not censored. There are no
> forbidden topics. We should simply exercise courtesy and avoid
> troll-baiting.

Yes. Officially its uncensored by its owners, however if one member gets
a hair up his butt to make the list unlivable for tolerating any minimal
amount of objectional message traffic, it is a de facto censored list.
Any time a free person feels like he or she is walking on eggshells to
comment on some topic, there is censorship.



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