On Sunday 27 May 2001 00:06, Sam Joseph said: > It seems to me that with Freenet that you are deciding that anything > digitizable is a valid opinion.
Because thats the only way the Internet allows us to define it. We can't look at everything and say "this infringes on somebody's rights, you can't post it". The Napster decision says that if you have any ability WHAT SO EVER to stop things from be posted, then you must use it to censor works that some groups don't like. You can either have complete control or complete anarchy. In Freenet, we prefer complete anarchy. >You are still drawing a line. Freedom > of Speech as is gets defined as something you can actually say (okay > maybe you could read out a UUecoded gif, but hey ....). Why stop at > digitizable stuff. Why isn't the distribution of physical objects part > of my freedom of expression, Because physical objects can't (yet) be infinately reproduced. Once we have matter replicators, then physical objects should have the same rules applied to it as digital information. >couldn't we say that me delivering a live > sheep to your house should be incorporated into my freedom of > expression, my right to express my opinion. Remeber that one of the central arguments for Freedom of Expression is that people are smart enough to figure out on their own what is good for them and what they would prefer not to see. Choosing not to listen to certain music because it expresses ideas you don't like is not censorship. OTOH, stoping the artist from making their music in the first place so that no one can listen to it is censorship. So, stoping you from delivering a live sheep to my house is not censorship. I can tell you to go away without being a hypocrit. OTOH, stoping you from delivering that sheep to my neighbor's house is censorship. I don't know, maybe they'll love to have a sheep around the house. Timm Murray ---------- . . . example of a mobious. This sentance is an example of a mobious. This sentance is an . . . _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
