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Re: Yahoo! We Have Free Speech
Written by jlandrith, on 06-04-2001 02:55
I reply to some, some I don't reply to. Your message is still online. I just read it again. Maybe the Delphi.com servers were acting up. The fact that the French government feels they own cyberspace doesn't make that viewpoint official. They can say whatever they want, how they go about enforcing it is another issue. It is still a free speech issue. The French cannot dislike Yahoo! rules and business practices all it likes, it just can't stop it. The French have no jurisdication over what an American company does from its home country. The French can control their citizens ability to purchase the offending artifacts, but they can't prevent Yahoo! from allowing people to sell them in their auctions. Either international borders are recognized or they aren't. Suppose the French government doesn't like this conversation we're having about them. Should they be free to forbid it? They could try, but they wouldn't be able to succeed since the servers this conversation is occuring on are located in the United States.

As far your comments, "Do you usually reply on behalf of everyone who writes in your website? I feel as if I have had my wrists slapped by an indignant teacher rather than being replied to." No one slapped your wrists, editors reply to readers responses all the time. Pick up most opinion journals and you'll see letters to the editor with author or editor responses. Pick up the current copy of Reason or Mother Jones or National Review and you'll see several editorial/author responses to letters to the editor. You seem to be taking this personally. When you post an opinion on a discussion board, don't expect your views to not get challenged by someone. Free speech works both ways. You get your say, everyone else gets their say, even if they are the editor/owner of the site. You sound like Bob Jones University apologists sounded when I published their policy against interracial dating online. They wanted to be able to preach against interracial dating, but didn't want anyone else discussing their views. I doesn't work that way. Your right to voice an opinion is not infringed when someone disagrees publicly with that opinion. If you don't like what I've said here, you're free to respond. And I or anyone else to you.

Edited 4/6/2001 9:57:57 AM ET by JLANDRITHJR

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