Ian Clarke wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 05:02:03AM +0900, Sam Joseph wrote: > > I don't want to devote resources of mine to those who > > do things I disapprove of
> Then don't use Freenet. Sure, I'm not. > Freedom of Speech is all about > tolerating things of which you disapprove, since you expect > people who disapprove of your opinions to tolerate your right > to express them. Is it? Okay fair enough. But what about tolerating those who are doing things contrary to the rights of other people? I mean Freenet is affecting the rights of Governments who want to the ability to oppress the individuals in their country. Now I'm sure that you and I would agree that we have no desire to help Governments oppress their people, and so using Freenet is a good thing right? Should we defend the rights of those disseminating ideas that help governments oppress individuals? I mean maybe the point of Freenet is that no one should be allowed to judge what can be used for oppression and what can't. I am very happy to tolerate people expressing the idea that child pornography is good or bad or .. - god why do I always end up on that, okay, lets say anything I disapprove of. I would fight to the death to defend your right to express your opinion about something, be it life or death for unborn children, the right to sodomize, the right to fly like a bird, whatever, but isn't that different from your right to disseminate images of me doing unspeakable things to donkeys, or whatever? Seems to me like there is a fundamental gap between the right to expressing one's opinion and the right to distribute images, files, whatever. Maybe we can't draw the line in terms of computer technology, maybe the line is just in my head, but it seems different to me. Does it seem different to you Ian? Am I just some madman? Maybe the bottom line is that we have to make it free to distribute all kinds of data under any circumstances, which is what Freenet advocates, right? Why does that make me feel uncomfortable? Am I just some crazy facist who has to overcome his terrible inhibitions and embrace the brave new world? CHEERS> SAM _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
