-=> mark lewis wrote to Bjorn Felten <=-

 ml>   Re: Question
 ml>   By: Bj.rn Felten to mark lewis on Sat May 02 2020 15:31:14


 BF>>> Have you asked your users about this?

 ml>> if they don't like it, they can get lee's messages from another
 ml>> system... it is the operator's system and operators can run their
 ml>> systems as they see fit, right??

 BF> Right.

 ml> excellent!

As far as I'm concerned, that Lee character did it to himself. He was trolling
my sysop and Eric did his best to silence the guy. The guy just kept pinging
him with nonsensical messages. 

 BF> But do you think there's a log-in page that informs his single(?)
 BF> user about the censorship?

 ml> who cares? it is his system... he can tell them or not... as the
 ml> operator of his system, that's his choice...

I won't shed a bloody tear. 

 BF> Plus of course, we all know now what he thinks about the freedom
 BF> of speech that all our(!!) forefathers fought and died for. Fuck
 BF> that, no?

 ml> freedom of speech only extends so far... is doesn't extend to shouting
 ml> fire in a movie theater... it also doesn't extend to private areas...
 ml> freedom of speech is only guaranteed by the government in government
 ml> controlled areas... everywhere else is control by other entities which
 ml> may have their own speech regulations... but you know this and have
 ml> known it for what? 60+ years, now?

There's no question on freedom of speech in this conversation. It's a privately
owned system and Eric was annoyed by a sudden influx of annoying messages in a
thread he wasn't part of. He doesn't even peruse Fidonet because, as he says
it, it's a Fight-o-net.

The left likes to define 'freedom of speech' subjectively. I don't hear them
complaining when a conservative is banned from twitter or facebook. That nutjob
Alex Jones did nothing illegal when he was completely deplatformed over a
conspiracy theory. Let that sink in. Deplatformed over a conspiracy theory..
I'm surprised the left didn't go after his domain registrar, the hate is
brutal.
I didn't hear them complain when the donald reddit was silenced during a
democrat debate. Only the donald reddit was silenced, by the way. But, you
know, the speech was "violent" or something ridiculous and it's not worth
looking
up. The blatant bias at these internet firms is nothing less than procedure.

Meanwhile, violent fascist groups like antifa get a free pass when they
outwardly plan their activities.

A good friend of mine is an engineer at twitter and he's a relatively moderate
conservative. He learned from day one that he has to keep his mouth shut
at the office. If they discover anything about his views, he'd likely
be out of a job. They'd find something to dismiss him with to avoid a lawsuit.

Daniel Traechin
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