[thelist] Angora socks comment on DJC article

[Jay Turley]

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"