[thelist] Angora socks comment on DJC article
Jay Turley
jay at weberrific.org
Wed Aug 2 12:57:22 CDT 2000
1) This sort of posting, while irritating in it's pointlessness, is
indicative of what can happen if "easy" access is allowed to posters.
2) Most people say "It's funny. It's harmless." He slammed the Christian
Right in the first paragraph. What if he had slammed african-americans
using the n-epithet? Is is still harmless? Howabout if he had posted a
dirty joke, which while still funny had absolutely no relationship to the
subject, not even with bad puns? What if he had posted a spammish message
to promote some pronography? Or even to promote his new web
service/site/application? At what point, if at all is it okay to censor?
3) I can't remember back to when I got my account, but if this person could
post without a valid email, that's could be considered a problem. Requiring
a valid email and a confirmation response from that email account would cut
down on graffiti and would allow us to at least attempt to communicate with
someone whose postings were found to be offensive or inappropriate in some
way.
- Jay Turley ---------------------------------------------------------
http://www.weberrific.org
"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology"
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