Re: [ga] [Admin] Removal of posting rights

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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On 11-Apr-2000 Dori Kornfeld wrote:
> Regardless of the content of messages and whether some messages are more
> "appropriate" than others, I think the GA is losing sight of its mission by
> engaging in censorship. The GA has already lost many valuable members and

This is not censorship.  It is enforcement of rules of civil discourse.

> will no doubt lose more as the arguments continue. ICANN, in theory, is
> supposed to be an open process and the GA a forum in which interest parties
> and individuals may deliberate. Perhaps a better method of "regulating the
> noise" would be to send out notices that the GA list monitor suggests that
> subscribers make individual filters for particular people. At least then
> the GA members would be able to control their own content, and the GA could
> become a more credible and legitimate forum for open communication.

Sorry, but I fail to see how letting someone post indiscriminately slanderous
comments such as the one that initiated this action helps lead to "open
communication" and a deliberative process.

To call this censorship is an abuse of the term, and an insult to those of us
who stand and fight against real issues of censorship.

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William X. Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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