Re: Uncivil rights

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I am far more disturbed by some/your imposed censorship than I ever 
>could be by the threat of having to use my delete key. I protest!!!
~
> However, I found Mr. Davis' posts both provocative and interesting. How 
> dare you take them from me?!?

For what it's worth, I think it's perfectly right for the list's 
moderator/owner/publisher to edit their "publication" (that which
is emailed from "photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx") as they see fit.  Our
getting the publication for free shouldn't lower the perceived value nor
diminish recognition of the tremendously valuable thing that it is. As
well as not forgetting who is giving it to us.

> Ain't it super to have a Big Brother? Makes me warm all over. Don't have to 
> worry my pretty 'lil head 'bout nothi'n.

Freedom of speech means that one is allowed to say what one wants
to, but it doesn't require listening.  The mailing list is (IMHO)
a "publication" of etsu.edu and all those related to it's running,
setup, and own the equipment that produces it.   *We*
are "contributors" like "free-lance reporters" are to a newspaper.  
Newspapers aren't required to publish anything and everything that
contributors want them to publish, and nor should photo-3D be required
to do so.  This list as far as I know, edits very little which is
fine by me, but it's still fully within their rights to do so.

Cliff wasn't made to stop saying what he was saying, he still can
and probably does continue.  He just isn't being published by photo-3d.

Of course, it's legit for Mr Carter to protest the editing style
(as he did with his "letter to the editor") just as one can protest a 
newspaper's editing.  But the publisher can choose to keep its own viewpoint
(or to heed the protest, and change).  It's well within each's right.
It's a matter of influencing the editing, not whether the publisher has the
right to edit at all.

I think photo-3d's generally lax "editing" to be about right.  If anything
it's a bit *too* lax when we wander off subject a bit far (as I've been 
guilty of from time to time).   :-)

> Pass me some of that medication Allan.

Save some for me !!!!!


Mike K.



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