Julia Thompson wrote: > >> Or do you *really* want a brin-l list with unmoderated >> free speech? > > Well, the thing is, Brin himself wanted an unmoderated list. > When? I guess things have changed even before He left. An unmoderated list would fall prey to spammers. > (...) So why didn't anyone call anybody > on the "nazi" issue when those posts appeared? > Let me see _why_ I didn�t do any of this...
> Were we all expecting Jo Anne to come in with her > Wand of Dinging? > No :-) > Or did each of us know that we were guilty of something > and didn't want to be scolded in retaliation > and have a flame war ensue? > Me, guilty? I am a saint, I never commit any sin. > Or didn't we care enough about the tone of > the list to speak up? > No - I didn�t call for restraint because I thought it would just raise the heat level. > Or were we just sick of the thread and leaving > those posts unread, until there was no one outside > the debate to gently point out to the offenders > that their posts were offensive? > No, I was reading, and eventually even writing. I was trying to present _my_ position, that Israel-Palestine may be past the point of no return, because each side is self-righteous and can�t see any good in the opponent. I think I�m slightly pro-Israel, but that may be just an echo from my racist education, where islamists were presented always as Evil in the History books [but so were the Netherlands and the USA :-))))))] Alberto Monteiro
