The freedom to offend? I'm sorry, but there is something wrong here. I think someone is misunderstanding netiquette (or etiquette) and good manners with freedom/censorship by law enforcement.
A good mannered people is not forbidden to curse. He freely chooses not to. Well, in some cultures, you are really forbidden to curse. In others, they allow you to do so only in certain places (like a football stadium, for instance). In a live person contact, a group can choose not to hang out with a guy that is disturbing. That is the freedom to be with people you like, people that contribute to society, that you can develop a friendship. In an internet group, it's not the group that moves around to hang out somewhere else. It's the disturbing guy that is supposed to fit or go away. If the majority of the group is for people who curse, mistreat persons, and alike, Miss Manners will leave. But usually, a big group that has a very strong philosophy of sharing and contributing to society will have a majority of good mannered people. This is a comforting thought, isn't it? After all, we all (or at least the great majority I strongly believe), do not want Miss Manners to leave. We like her. ;) Beco. On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 08:14:23PM +0100, Joe wrote: >> And finally, there are a few people who are just plain prickly... but >> one of the most important of all freedoms is the freedom to offend. >> Once that is outlawed, censorship becomes trivial to implement. > > Bollocks. > > -- > "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people > who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the > oppressing." --- Malcolm X > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121019230109.GH7861@tal > -- Dr Beco "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." (Groucho Marx) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caluyw2zs7hb_m+lf5ua_eyp-f4ebqhm1-qdmydite6gr4r6...@mail.gmail.com
