[lit-ideas] Re: Censorship
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:42:11 -0400
I thought some of Camp's articles thought provoking. The article on taxes
was dumb, but only because that's how most people feel about taxes. I
thought his question as to who "him" was in Judy's post showed he's
participating in his own way, not trolling. I wouldn't have thought of
Daniel Pipes had Camp not posted that article. With so little time to
read, it's almost a service to have someone cull out and post articles.
For Eric, the 9/11 terrorists were anything but dumb. Al Qaeda is sly
enough that I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't putting forth red
herrings to get us thinking we're dealing with a stupid organization.
Maybe as they get bigger there will be more room for error and inefficiency
but I wouldn't bet on it.
Andy Amago
> [Original Message]
> From: Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10/14/2005 5:57:07 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Censorship
>
> > If something is racist or bullshit or dumb, why not point out exactly
how it IS racist or
> > dumb...
>
> Paul, there are tens of thousands of dumb, racist websites. Are you
pointing out to every
> one of them how they are racist or dumb? No. It's a waste of time. They
just want to drag
> you down into their small-mindedness.
>
> > I guess we are only allowed to discuss the acceptable ideas?
>
> You can discuss whatever you like. And that's the point: you can discuss.
>
> But Camp was simply spamming the list with an endless series of articles,
without ever
> replying or discussing them. Camp never engaged in discussion. CAMP was
NOT discussing
> anything.
>
> > ...I would have preferred that our board of moderators suggest to him...
>
> There hasn't been a board for a long time. I'm the moderator.
>
> Offlist, I asked CAMP three times, over the course of this week, to stop
posting nonsensical
> articles without engaging in followup discussion.
>
> CAMP never once replied to me.
>
> I considered the possibility that CAMP could be software that is
automatically sending
> extremist articles to dozens of lists. It's more likely that CAMP is
trolling various lists,
> just trying to provoke fights.
>
> CAMP isn't banned. CAMP is on moderation; if CAMP posts something that's
meaningful, I'll
> approve it. If it's just spam, I'll delete it.
>
> yrs,
> andreas
> www.andreas.com
>
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