Re: OT: man in the middle attack ?
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
<cbannister@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.
>
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