Posted by stjames on January 30, 2001, at 23:32:22
In reply to Re: Holding my Tongue, posted by Mark H. on January 30, 2001, at 19:49:13
> > James here....
> >
> > a extrimist cannot post on this board "XXXX are decended from _______." without his/her right
> > to post here quickly taken away.
>
> James,
>
> I guess we'll see whether your right to post is quickly taken away or not.
>
> I thought I was making the same point as you on the need for clear limits on the freedom of speech on these boards.James here.....
Let me put it another way; it has always been clear to me that "free speech" is not how it works here or on other internet places and I don't see how anyone could assume otherwise. I read the intro's, disclaimers and skimmed the board before I posted. If others did not, shame on them.
As to defining "civil", if you need a defination here then you missed a big part of primary and secondary school (i,e,..plays well with others)
If you need the define what support each other,
be nice, respect each other, ect mean then I fear
you will need to define everything to these people,indicating they may not have to social skills to function here and perhaps in life in general.
>However, if you are an employee of the >University of Chicago and operating a public >service board for the public good, then you are >obligated not to discriminate arbitrarily with >regards to access. This board is not privately >operatedDr-Bob is the list owner, it is da facto that the list owner sets the rules and common that the list owner is not the true owner. This is the way things have opperated of the last 20 + years on the internet.
James
poster:stjames
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