Taken Off List

[Jim Bond]

On 12 July 2001 11:43
Owen Lewis wrote: 

> Subject: Re: Wired: Echelon Furor Ends in a Whimper
> 
> 
> I really do have "zero tolerance" for the implied
nationalism and racism
> of the language you used, so I replied in anger, and
do not regret it. 

Taken off list.

Owen

If this means Mr Brown has been taken off of the list
then I am appalled. I would be interested to hear your
justification (presumably other than "use of bad
language").

You have failed to reproduce important aspects of Mr
Brown's response particularly: 

" ..... or say I am trying to exercise censorship. I
think you have every right to say unacceptable things,
just as I have every right not to accept them."

Mr Brown's response (containing the snippet above) was
argumentative and had some merit - albeit obviously
unacceptable to Owen. The apparent removal of Mr Brown
seems to smack of censorship and non acceptance of
other people's rights to express an opinion.

If the reason is that the response was off topic then
perhaps a review of the archive is justified -
unfortunately I think that you will find that most
contributors will have been guilty on numerous
occasions and that equality of treatment requires
their removal from the list! The later parts of the
debate about echelon, together with numerous peurile
postulations, would seem to justify removal from the
list under this criteria! It certainly falls within
the category of unconstructive waffle!

best regards to all - lets return to constructive and
rational debate please!

Jim - an avid listener but 1st time contributor.

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Resurgum

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