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- Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!giga!prabhak
- From: prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar)
- Subject: Re: Alt.culture.bengal
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.124628.16651@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 12:46:28 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- (Kuram T Narayana) writes:
- >(Satya Prabhakar) writes:
- >>>
- >>Oh, come on! Please don't assume the role of the supreme censor now.
- >>There are (I suppose) Usenet laws divined to contain terrorism and
- >>let the law take care of that. With respect to blasphemy thing,
- >>you sound like Jerry Falwell than a reasoned individual. Looks like
- >>the first amendment stops at your whim and fancy!
-
- >Oh! Bull! The same liberal smut. There is a difference between censorship
- >and terrorism. Terrorism and propaganda oriented towards the same is
- >curbed in every democratic society unless it is your looney society.
-
- If hate, blasphemy (whatever you meant by that word) and terrorism
- were to be the litmus tests for the creation and existence of news
- groups, then soc.culture.indian should have been shut down a long
- along time ago. And so should soc.culture.pakistan and many other
- such groups.
-
- Please tell us why you support the existence of soc.culture.indian
- and not the creation of soc.culture.bengal?
-
- >My god, some people will go to any lengths to prove that
- >they are intellectual slaves of outstanding quality.
-
- Since I cannot do any better, I will quote Voltaire and leave this
- alone: "I don't agree one bit with what you are saying, but I
- will defend unto my death your right to say so." Call me whatever
- you want, but I see this as extending the same liberty that we
- have to others.
-
- The bottom-line is this: any group has the right to form their
- own newsgroup (as long as it meets technical criteria) unless others
- decide, through magnanimity or malice, to gag them!
-
- Satya Prabhakar
-
- Oh! Give me liberty,
- For were ev'n Paradise my prison,
- Still I should long to leap the crystal walls - Dryden
-
-
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