From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 01:00:00 MDT
On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 02:09 am, Giu1i0 Prisc0 wrote:
> Suppose someone posts here a messages in favor of racism,
> violence, ... (everyone can do that).
This has already happened, and is what started these myriad of threads.
> Suppose someone (maybe the same) forwards the
> message to another person or list (everyone can do that). The final
> recipient would see something like: from: extropians@extropy.org -
> subject:
> (a racist line) - body: (a racist text).
This has already happened. I posted a list of examples of other sites
"quoting us" as being racists.
> The immediate impression on the
> final recipient is that the racist line and text are statements of the
> extropians list as an entity. This is a very simple way to spread a
> negative
> impression of the target group. If this were a fairy tale world I
> would't
> like censorship so much but since things are as they are...
I also don't know how to handle this. I think this scenario has already
happened many times.
There must be a difference between censorship (stopping a person from
presenting THEIR viewpoints) and fighting slander (stopping a person
from misrepresenting OUR viewpoints).
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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