Well, viruses considered free speech. I've heard everything now. Next
you'll be suggesting that politically inspired mass-murder is actually
performance art, and art should not be censored. There's at least one
eastern European strongman on trial that might like to borrow that
argument.
If I was a big believer in eliminating gun control laws, that wouldn't
mean I'd let an incoherent person waving a 357 magnum into my house...
No matter how strong my ideology. Is a virus any different?
Unflinching, unbridled ideology untempered by common sense is a
dangerous thing. Pull any history book... The dark ages were full of
examples... More recently 9/11.
Removing the ability to send attachments is one thing... Removing
attachments that are known to have absolutely NO redeeming value is
another. If someone absolutely needed to send an exe or pif or scr
file, they could zip it and avoid the removal.
Brock (soon to be removed I'm sure... So much for free speech)
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> [mailto:users-admin_at_lists.freeswan.org] On Behalf Of Sam Sgro
> Sent: May 9, 2002 11:14 AM
> To: users_at_lists.freeswan.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] viruses on the list
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>
> I'd like to address this topic in a bit more detail, but it's
> a closed
> issue that has been discussed (to extremes) in the past.
>
> Simply put: any filtering that would be done on this list,
> whether it be
> of viruses, offensive users, spam, etc. would be censorship
> of some form,
> however noble in motivation. The FreeS/WAN project has a political
> core: that information not be censored based on content.
>
> Why? Censorship/filtering is a slippery slope; although it
> might seem useful, if the ability to censor based on content were to
> become widespread and accepted across the 'net as a whole,
> how long might
> it be until information you need to know might be deemed
> unacceptable by those who control the
> communication networks? The 'net was intended to be free; but
> there are those
> who would like nothing better than to have your movements tracked for
> marketing purposes, your communications monitored for
> libelous statements
> against a megacorp, etc.
>
> The flow of information in North America is still, for the most part,
> free and accessible to all on the Internet. Censorship is a daily
> reality for others, where some governments restrict access to
> information they declare anathema.
>
> The people who fund and work on this project believe that people
> have a right to free communication: whether it be private and secure,
> or public and widely accessible. Censoring this list would restrict
> communication; and any action that serves to restrict
> communication in any
> small fashion, regardless of how it might benefit those who read it,
> is unlikely to be accepted due to the political core that
> motivates this project.
>
> Thus, there will likely never be a filtered version of this
> mailing list
> produced by the FreeS/WAN project.
>
> If someone were to decide to mirror our content, only filtered
> for viruses/spam/offensive users, I doubt the project leaders
> would stop
> that from being made available. That's the point; no-one
> SHOULD be able to
> stop you from doing what you wish with this content that we make
> publically available.
>
> Sam Sgro.
> sam_at_freeswan.org
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