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I'd just as soon deal with things forthrightly.. warts and all.

I'd rather realize that the 1st Amendment, along with freedom of expression, also mandates freedom of association. And I really don't care to associate with the neonazi garbage that unfortunately has come to infest LF.

Every forum has to make a decision regarding moderation and exactly what is moderated and how far it goes. It's been more interesting to watch Neil and Goldi at LP try to wrestle with how to apply moderation than it has been to watch the experiment in uncontrolled freedom of expression at LF. We all know that there is garbage in this world, the question is, how do we deal with it?

85 posted on 10/27/2003 1:10:22 PM PST by dirtboy (Now in theaters - Howard Dean as Buzz Lightweight - taking the Dems to Oblivion and Beyond in 2004!)

We all know that there is garbage in this world, the question is, how do we deal with it?

The way it is dealt with on Usenet. By open debate, refutation with superiour
ideas, and ridicule where necessary. Clamping off half the debate by banning
the side you dislike least, just lets air out of the balloon.