Re: (no subject)

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Tuesday, April 26, 2005 01:17:58 PM -0700 Thomas Sutpen 
<sutpen () gmail com> wrote:

> On 4/26/05, Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu> wrote:
> > That makes a great deal of sense.  One poster sends stuff you find
> > offensive, so you want to shut down the entire list?
>
> You're being myopic.
>
> In some countries, this type of discussion will get you in a lot of
> hot water.  Remember the flap in Fwee Fwance over Yahoo auctioning
> Nazi paraphernalia, and how the Fwench Gov't was successful in getting
> Yahoo to block the auctions in the ENTIRE COUNTRY of Fwee Fwance?
>
> Think the hosters of full-disclosure won't drop the list like a hot
> potato under similar pressure?
Perhaps, but then someone else would pick it up.

The fact is you can't stop idiots from being idiots, and any attempt to do 
so simply adds to the list of idiots.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
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