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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (36581)	5/1/1999 11:51:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Chuzz, it is sickening indeed. However, his right to indulge in verbal vomit is protected by law, by the same laws that protect the rights we hold dear. We can click past him, as I do, and refuse to acknowledge his postings. If he annoys us individually, we can slam him with the terms of use. I think that LRR's suggestion for dealing with Terry when he gets out of line is highly appropriate to EE: Coventry. And congratulations to your daughter! I know the play. Not one of his best, but hey, Shakespearean actresses should be in Shakespearean plays.

To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (36581)	5/2/1999 11:28:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Last night we read Julius Caesar aloud. During Act II, several of Ammo's friends called; they were outside the house on a cell phone and wanted him to go out. He told them he didn't want to, that we were having family time. (He didn't say we were reading Shakespeare). Dan and I later laughed in some bemusement about a 16 year old making a choice like this. But we have so much fun with it. I have a very old edition of his works- and there are discrepancies between my copy and the two more recent ones Dan and AMmo were using. For instance I was reading Lucius, the servant, and I read, "My Lord,(or whatever) 14 days of March have expired." ANd Dan said, "THat's an important line. WOuld you like to reread it?" So I read it with more passion, though I didn't know why. And he said, "Read it again." ANd I shouted dramatically and leaped from the couch waving my arms around. (Alarum!) It turned out that his and AMmo's copies said, "Fifteen days have expired." They just thought I couldn't read. Then in some place, Caesar says something about "moe friends" which got us off reading in jive for a while. It was really a wonderful time, though a maybe intellectually dubious approach.

To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (36581)	5/2/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

> I want someone to explain to me why his hate-filled bigotry falls within SI's guidelines. I want someone to explain to me why these kinds of vicious, racist attacks are permissible. Why, SI, is this piece of filth given a forum? < I will venture a supposition here. Censorship is the weapon of last resort in a society that pretends to value liberty and the worth of the individual citizen. Censorship is reserved for things like kid porn, bad words in a family place, video of ritual murder ... that kind of stuff. EE is careful to mind his language - so he steers clear of the more mechanistic criteria for censorship. While we all agree that his ideas are unattractive, a philosophical question rears its head. At which point does an opinion become so ugly as to merit banishment? It's a very tough call imho. I for one would rather shoulder the burden of clicking over the occasional online abscess. The alternative is a curtailment of the freedom of what I can say here - either in jest or in dead earnest. EE is the distillate of the price we pay for free speech on SI.