Quoth Brian Holtz: > I was a member of the group. No, you weren't -- at least not substantively, although the Yahoo! Groups setup does coincidentally refer to list subscribers as "members." You were a subscriber to the group's (i.e. the Libertarian Party Radical Caucus's) list, not a member of the LP Radical Caucus.
The list is a working venue for a group you oppose. The fact that you know how to fill out a subscribe form doesn't make you a member of the group the list exists to serve. If the list was Lincoln Park, it would indeed be "censorship" to prevent you from unfurling your "reformer" banner at the same time that people elsewhere in the park are unfurling their "radical" banner. But the list isn't Lincoln Park, it's a virtual office in an organization's virtual headquarters -- a purposed space. ----- It's silly to claim that a person or institution can never be aptly described as "censoring" just because its actions don't initiate force. ----- Not as silly as it is to claim that a group not allowing its online workspace to be used by a person opposed to the group, for purposes opposed to the group's purposes, is "censorship" -- especially now that there exists another "room" in the same "building" which you're free to put to such uses. In the past, I have encouraged the moderators of the lpradicals list to be more open to the posting of conflicting viewpoints. However, they now seem to be getting serious about turning the base list into a real workspace and moving all non-work-related discussion to another list ... an unmoderated list which I hope to see both yourself and Bruce posting to (I'll probably be posting more there than at the regular list myself, if the proposed "march on the Fed" is any indication of what can be expected in the workspace area). Regards, Tom Knapp
