Re: [ga] Re: Free speech and GA

["William X. Walsh" <william@dso.net>]

this is joe baptista posing as william walsh in the continued anti
censorship battle.

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, William X. Walsh wrote:

> > CENSORSHIP IN ANY OF IT'S FORMS IS WRONG!
> 
> This is not about censorship.  This is about someone standing in a meeting room
> and making a public disturbance of themselves.  At that point, in ANY forum,
> public or private, the person's right to participate would be restricted, if
> not totally removed.  

This has everything to do with censorship William.  This is about being
preented from participating in the GA, a right to participation which I
need not defend.

Indeed of this censorship did not exist - I would be posting as myself.
Unfortunately it does exists - so the battle continues.

Accountability and the GA go together like water and oil.

> Calling this censorship is like saying that someone standing up during a movie
> at a theater and deliving a speech against abortion is simply exercising their
> free speech rights.  They broke the law by creating a public nuisance.  
> 
> That is what happened here, and the DNSO has every right to act to remove those
> who do so, provided they do so in a consistent and fair manner.  So far I have
> seen them act with great caution, and only have great abuse have they taken the
> extreme acts you are trying to characterize as censorship.
> 
> Don't like it, stop trying to be a disturbance.
> 
> It really is that simple.
> 
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