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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eric L who wrote (1715)	5/22/2000 1:06:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12231

Eric, I've never used 'ignore' until recently and I don't like it. I nearly missed an excellent Jon Koplik post because he was replying to somebody I had on ignore. It would be far better for people to simply adopt the tone of the discussion and contribute on that basis and be self-disciplining. Many have stuck in their head the slogan "I have an inalienable right to free speech", completely missing the point that they don't have it at other people's expense or in other people's places and they sure don't have the right to inflict it on anyone. They are letting a slogan do their thinking for them. They should instead operate on my favourite slogan "Don't let a slogan do your thinking for you". [Sorry to bore those who have seen that so many times]. The point of the right to free speech is that people have the right to express. Others of course have the right to not listen, or ignore, or exclude that expression from their premises or property, and SI is a property owned by SI, which they delegate control of to moderators in the new system. Nobody [in the USA free speech context but don't try this in public or at home in Malaysia or most other places] can stop others expressing themselves in their own medium. But people do NOT have the right to take possession of somebody else's medium and demand the right to free speech. Apart from being outright rude, obnoxious, bad-mannered etc, it completely misses the point of free speech. Eric, I'm meaning this generally of course, not lecturing you. This is in the hope that some people who are too keen to ignore requests to keep in to Ramsey's style get to understand another way of looking at the right to free speech. Mqurice