Re: Modern censorship

From: LarryLard (larrylard_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: 18 Nov 2004 02:43:39 -0800

jstevh@msn.com (James Harris) wrote in message news:<3c65f87.0411171706.3f79aba8@posting.google.com>...
[snippage]
> You read in history books about individuals harried by mobs,
> continually barraged with various attacks, who face outrageous
> behavior at the hands of some group, and then we come to a supposedly
> enlightened age with extraordinary tools for sharing information--and
> the same damn thing happens again.
>
> Over the years that I've posted on PUBLIC forums the thing that has
> stood out is how out there, without shame, and without even hesitating
> to hide what they're doing--groups of people have made it their
> business to try to censor what I write.
>
> Time after time they'd post to tell me to go away, or to tell others
> to ignore me, as these people made it their business to try to
> control.

You seem to be confusing 'disagreement' with 'attempted censorship'.

> You are the reason that we have a society of today where so many
> problems will not get addressed because a few people fight for control
> they do not have.

Ooh, political.

>
> You wish to control others, to dominate the conversation, to force
> your will upon people who might want to say something you don't want
> to hear.
>
> So still the webpages are there--some of you illegally using my
> copyrighted material to insult me

So you still haven't learned anything about copyright law. Hint: the
relevant bits are the ones dealing with 'fair use'.

> I have a paper at a major math journal. If they try
> to slide out of publication like others before them, it will go to
> another, and another, and another, as I adjust, shift the wording,
> learn the game, play the politics necessary to get published.

Your mistake is not failing to 'play ... politics', it's failing to
'learn mathematics'.

>
> And if it takes a decade I WILL GET PUBLISHED.

Hey, you've already been published, remember? You got published in
SWJPAM! Do you actually mean to say that 'if it takes a decade I WILL
GET A CORRECT RESULT PUBLISHED' ?

By the way, what exactly will that achieve? 

-- 
Larry Lard
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