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To: Aggie who wrote (12604)	11/23/1999 10:25:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62558

Yes. It looks as though somebody scrubbed it. Apparently either he edited it out, or asked SI to scrub it, or somebody complained and SI scrubbed it, or SI noticed it on their own and scrubbed it. I did not complain to SI, so if it was scrubbed because of a complaint it wasn't from me. I wouldn't do that. I believe in free speech -- but I also believe in my right to tell somebody their exercise of free speech is offensive and cruel. So I would not deny him the right to post it, but I will use my own free speech to try to educate him so maybe next time he will voluntarily choose not to. In short, IMO the answer to an abuse of free speech is not censorship, but more free speech. For more on this, read Nat Hentoff's superb book, that should be required reading in every high school and college civics class in this country, "Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee." Superb book.