Piss off you paranoid git!
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> The postings to uk.misc newsgroup generated a very. defensive reaction
> from
> Usenet readers in the UK.. So much so, that they tried strenuously to
> suppress what was being said, both by breaking the rules. of netiquette
in
> their responses on the forum, and directly. by action to revoke the
> account
> from which the postings. were issued.
>
> Yet the postings. were within the normal boundaries of behaviour for
> uk.misc, and. other less partisan spectators did not see justice in the
> censorship which was. effected, as the following excerpt shows;
>
> :Karen Lofstrom (lofstrom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
). wrote
> :>It does seem that the frequency and the size. of his posts are
> :>approaching net abuse. However, IMHO, they aren't quite. there yet.
If
> :>his postmaster were to act in this instance, it. would raise troubling
> :>censorship. issues.
>
> The inescapable conclusion. of the censorship effected on the uk.*
> newsgroups is that the British are. intent on their wrongdoing remaining
> concealed, and therefore seek to subvert and. suppress freedom of
speech,
> not only in their own country where the media shows xenophobic bias. and
> bile against all perceived enemies within and without,. but also in
other
> countries which have their own statutes to guarantee the. basic human
> right
> of. free speech.
>
> It is absolutely necessary to bring their hate campaign out into the.
open
> where it can be placed under scrutiny and the. harassers seen for what
> they
> are. That is the only way of making it impossible. for the security
> services
> to carry. it out. There is a wider dimension, though. Xenophobia as
> demonstrated by. British people and institutions over the last few years
> belongs. to the same stable as racial hatred. In one case, two youths on
a
> Tube train. made that racism explicit by referring to their victim as a
> "soft toy, not up to British Standards". Doubtless others. victimize
> partly
> on the basis of race (isn't it odd that they chose to torment someone.
who
> is not ethnically English?) while. expressing their abuse in terms of
> another genetic attribute, namely mental illness. All. xenophobia on a
> genetic basis is wrong, but while racial insults are illegal, abusing.
the
> mentally ill. is neither against the law nor subject to similar
> condemnation
> when it is. exposed.
>
> 7001
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