Posted by Bob on 01/03/08 00:13

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<mfvfe@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:sl0800011516123439@4ax.com...
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> -= purpose in publicizing it; censorship in uk.*. newsgroups -=
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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@lava.net) 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.
>
> 5742
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