for the List [was neo-Nazis on the Net]

[Henry Musikar]

On 12 Jul 97 at 8:41, Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com> 
wrote:

> I agree with Alan on this one. Those of us who detest -- as I do --
> neo-Nazi propaganda on the Internet can expose it for what it is, on
> the Internet, just as people fight against this sort of propaganda
> in other forms of media. But no censorship, please.  The Internet is
> the closest thing we have to a free market place of ideas -- anybody
> with access to the Internet can publish anything and attract an
> audience, and I don't want to lose that; the capability that
> ordinary people now have to make themselves heard, on the Internet,
> on a more or less equal status with the largest corporate entities, 
> is unprecedented.

There is a difference between "Freedom of Speech" and enabling the 
amplification of that freedom. I'm for voting against nazis on the 
net. They can remain in the alt-dot area. Same way I believe 
that people against abortion rights have the right to assemble and 
free speech, but they don't have the right to put their face in mine 
any more than I have the right to put my face in the face of any 
stranger.

AsB4,
Henry Musikar

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