Thank you for your clarification. Matthew Small
-----Original Message----- From: S.Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 2:26 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Enough is enough... Well yeah, that's why he said "TOS/Yahoo/HOF has the right to take him down if they want" ... I don't think he's ignorant of the applicability of constitutional rights... I read it as expressing an opinion about the choice to censor someone even though you're well within your rights to do that as an individual in ownership of a mailing list, etc. > Matt, > the Constitution only applies to the government, not to > private > entities. Accordingly its not against the consitution. > larry > On 9/2/05, Matthew Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, I get it. No matter what you think, hate speech is >> protected by the Constitution here in the US. The >> Internet doesn't belong to anybody. TOS/Yahoo/HOF has >> the right to take him down if they want, but it's >> suppression of free speech no matter what the content. >> >> >> Matthew Small >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Vivec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:59 AM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: Re: Enough is enough... >> >> You're missing the point. >> There is no democracy where Hate Speech is concerned. >> It's against most laws and terms of service of using the >> Internet. >> Including the ISP ToS, Yahoo ToS, GMail ToS. >> >> On 9/2/05, Matthew Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hey, I don't care for this guy's point of view, but let >> > this guy have his >> > say, then you have yours. It's a democracy here - you >> > don't have to like >> > what he has to say, but you should defend to the death >> > his right to say it. >> > >> > Start comparing your actions to the Patriot act. >> > >> > >> > Matthew Small >> >> >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:172360 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
