[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Xah Lee schreef: > >> <snip: plea for sympathy after being reported to ISP for persistent >> off-topic postings>
Which reminds me of http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#not_losing > We seem to have strayed a long way from Voltaire's > "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your > right to say it.", I don't think we have. Surely Voltaire didn't support speaking in inappropriate fora? He didn't support causing a public nuisance? Would you lay down *your* life to defend Xah's "right" to wallpaper your street, your church, your school with printed essays about his personal obsessions? In societies with a right to free speech, there are limits on where and how you may exercise that right. For example, you don't have a right to force any newspaper or TV station to publish your speech. Xah's ISP can decide whether their terms of service provide Xah with a "right" to publish anything he wishes through their facilities regardless of established standards of appropriateness. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
