[anti-abuse-wg] WG Chair Mailing List Decision

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 04:19:15PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:

>There is a fine line between "freedom of speech" and "violating
>the freedom of others".

An argument used exclusively by wannabe censors over the
centuries. I consider it discredited.

>Anyone should be free to state their opinions.

Correct

>As should anyone be free to *not listen*.

Correct

But, and therein lies your fallacy: Nobody has the right to force
others not to listen.

>Nobody has the right to personally attack others - or force
>others to listen to his droning on, by filling their listening
>channels.

This is not comparable. You cannot always avoid listening to
"noise", but anyone is capable of *not* reading those posts, as I
have not done until "forced" to by having to look for
non-existant evidence of some accusations made. In fact I don't
read the great majority of posts on the list. As I am free to do.

>This list is like a private club.  Yes, anyone can state their
>opinion, but if they start to annoy the other patrons, the
>landlord is free to ask them to state their opinion elsewhere.

Since I own part of this club, I *am* one of the landlords and my
opinion, let alone permission, was not asked. Maybe it's time to
fire the bouncer.

rgds,
Sascha Luck