Re: More of my philosophy about what is a successful country..

From	David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: More of my philosophy about what is a successful country..
Date	2021-02-16 23:34 +0100
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On 16/02/2021 20:01, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 16/02/2021 12:10, David Brown wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> I had to look it up too.
> 
> "A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness." - Alls Well That Ends
> Well III ii
> 
> 
>> How about this for a plan?  We report Peter to Google for anti-Semitism
> 
> It's tempting, but (a) I would be compromising a principle that I hold
> dear - free speech - and (b) it would be tantamount to acknowledging
> Google Groups as de facto moderators of this newsgroup, which was around
> long before they were and over which they have no authority whatsoever.
> 

Google (and Google Groups) are not moderators of the group, but they
/are/ moderators of who gets to post to the group via their interface
(just as eternal-september.org can limit our postings).  They have
shirked that responsibility and invariably ignore all complaints about
abuse of Usenet groups - except that now they seem to be throwing babies
out with the bathwater for certain complaints.

Free speech needs some limits, and it is entirely reasonable to block
posts espousing dangerous conspiracy theories concerning Covid, which
someone had posted to c.l.c.  It is, of course, utterly /unreasonable/
to block that entire group from google groups.  Lots of people are happy
to see google groups spammers and nutjobs disappear, but there were some
sensible people who used gg too.  And google's blocking of groups makes
their archives far harder to find and search, which is unforgivable.

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Re: More of my philosophy about what is a successful country.. Peter <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2021-02-15 23:13 +0000
  Re: More of my philosophy about what is a successful country.. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-02-16 02:56 +0000
  Re: More of my philosophy about what is a successful country.. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-02-16 06:55 +0000
    Re: More of my philosophy about what is a successful country.. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-02-16 13:10 +0100
      Re: More of my philosophy about what is a successful country.. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-02-16 19:01 +0000
        Re: More of my philosophy about what is a successful country.. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-02-16 23:34 +0100

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