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- From: dleslie@phakt.usc.edu (David Leslie)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: "Civil Disobedience" et al.
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 15:59:29 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
- >In article dleslie@phakt.usc.edu (David Leslie) writes:
- >> Why don't you just post some of the stuff out of alt.sex.stories?
- >>It is about as relevant, and you should get some mail(If that is your
- >>true measure of success).
- >
- >Wait a minute. You're saying Thoreau is no more relevant to people
- >concerned about electronic freedoms than the postings to alt.sex.stories
- >are? If so, you have given civil libertarians like me a very strong
- >argument for subscribing to alt.sex.stories.
-
- Hmm. I meant it in the sense that the alt.sex.* groups are
- provoking a lot of the net-censorship discussion, and are therefore,
- at least partially relevant. And hey, I guarantee it would increase
- readership. :)
-
- >>If you are implying that he said that Thoreau was a 60's radical; I guess
- >>you are totally wrong. There is a difference between '1960s nostalgia' and
- >>"..nostalgia for 1960s radicals." The way you(plural) are jumping on
- >>this guy shows a severe lack of tolerance.
-
- >It seems ironic for someone to condemn a Thoreau reprint, then criticize
- >others for a lack of tolerance.
- >--Mike
-
- I wasn't condemning the Thoreau reprint, I was critcizing the
- criticism of the critic of the EFF effector. I stand by the statement
- that there was showing of intolerance, witnessed by silly flames -
- twisting his words to make him look ignorant.
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