The repeater owner has the right to decide who can use his hardware. He can't stop anyone from talking simplex on his repeater frequency, but he can say who can use his hardware. Free speech only exists to the extent that the owner of the medium allows it.
Mailing lists are not democracies, they are controlled by the list *OWNER* and moderators. That's the way it is. It's only a free speech issue in the same sense that I can allow someone to place a sign in my yard for my favorite political candidate, but forbid a sign for his opponent. Everyone can see it from the street, but I decide the content. In that sense, it is my free speech that is being expressed, and the repeater owner's, and Thom's. The list owner owns the list, or they wouldn't call him that. The slip side of that is the freee speech that we call "spam" doesn't get through on a well-managed list. 73 -Jim On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:56:34 -0400, Richard wrote: >I have only one comment to make, which may or may not be applicable. >Sometimes moderators on forums are like the Folks that are on condo boards. >I have seen this on several forums. It creates problems from the libertarian >types. Free speech should prevail. Some think the first amendment does not >apply on the Internet. I demur. On the forums no one regulates the >regulators, so people vote with their feet. This is similar to the FCC >letting repeater operators kick people off the repeater. They do not own the >frequency any more than the person that they disagree with. Who owns the >Internet? -- Ham Radio NU0C Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.S.A. TR7/RV7/R7A/L7, TR6/RV6, T4XC/R4C/L4B, NCL2000, SB104A, R390A, GT550A/RV550A, HyGain 3750, IBM PS/2 - all vintage, all the time! "Give a man a URL, and he will learn for an hour; teach him to Google, and he will learn for a lifetime." HyGain 3750 User's Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HyGain_3750/ http://incolor.inetnebr.com/jshorney http://www.nebraskaghosts.org _______________________________________________ Drakelist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
