Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Free Speech, M6 Glory, and Improper Posting
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 09:58:20 -0500

Amen.

It does, however, seem reasonable to tell the poster that another post of this nature would suggest that he's subscribing to the wrong list.


At 05:58 PM 3/26/98 -0500, you wrote:

>This has turned into a Free Speech discussion.  I am totally, utterly,

>thoroughly, absolutely committed to unbridled Free Speech, and am appalled

>that the United States Supreme Court believes it can be made a crime to

>shout "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre.  That is not the issue here.

>

>The issue here is the appropriateness of the posting of the crude picture.

>It was inappropriate because:

>

>	a)	It was grotesquely off-topic, even further than I generally dare to tread

>	b)	Many folks here have "family values" and do not wish such stuff on

>their computers

>	c)	We do not know that some of the LUG'ers aren't of juvenile years, with

>all that this entails.  (That is, I have a non-censorship arrangement with

>my own 16-year-old son, precisely as my parents had with me -- but others

>feel differently, and I will NOT substitute my judgement for that of other

>parents.  Each parent should be the judge of his or her own family situation).

>

>Hence, I do not believe that this posting should have been "illegal" or

>"subject to censorship", on the very grounds which led Voltaire to posit

>that 'I may not agree with what you say, but I shall defend to the death

>your right to say it'.  But I feel this poster should have used more

>judgement in posting.

>

>Marc

>

>

>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315

>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!

>

>

>

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