Messages in this thread |  | | From | Matt Beland <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ? | Date | Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:07:30 -0700 |
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On Sunday 07 January 2001 21:24, Dan Hollis wrote: > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > You are suggesting that it is acceptable to implement technological > > barriers to a minority expressing speech that is unacceptable to the > > majority. This is not acceptable. > > See Rowan v. United States Post Office. > > *Your* right to free speech stops at *my* property.
Does it now? How interesting. You can prohibit people from saying things you don't like. Hmmm. I suppose that could be useful. I don't like (just as an example) any speech from or about people named Dan. Please cease and desist immediately or I will blackhole you, your server, your domain, and everyone and everything associated with it until the people rise up and kill everyone named Dan, or as an acceptable compromise, remove their ability to speak and or type, or force them to change their names. That's my right, it's my property. Morally wrong? Bah. Your right to prattle on about morality stops at my property.
Point 1: Laws mean jack squat in this case. The lawmakers know little about the internet, and until they learn, the laws they pass will continue to be irrelevant, confusing, or contradictory. Even when they aren't, no society has ever managed a foolproof "unjust law filter". The existence of a law does not make that law good, correct, or even legal; reference prohibition, slave ownership, women's sufferage or the lack thereof, and roughly 40% of the US Tax Code referencing income tax.
Point 2: Either "information wants to be free", has no physical existence or worth, and cannot be controlled, or it has existense, worth, and can be controlled as property. You can't have it both ways; either Spam is an undesirable side effect of the free flow of information, or information is not free and can be controlled.
Isn't it amazing how some of the people who are so quick to yell when Microsoft or Oracle or the government of <insert nation name here> infringes on their rights/privacy/information are the first to block the flow of information in the name of the same?
> > Under no circumstances does your right to free speech trump the rights of > the unwilling recipient. Full Stop. End of story. > > -Dan > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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