[TriLUG] On Topic - trusted computing vs Linux usability (was OT : Don't let Cheney hide)

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:58:51 -0400, Mike M
<no-linux-support at earthlink.net> wrote:
> FWIW, this is a public forum sponsered by an organization that has
> claimed certain priviledges under the US tax code.  The
> first amendment of the US Constitution upholds one's right to make
> comments on this list because it is a public list.  If someone is bent
> on using this list as a political soapbox it cannot be stopped.  If you
> do not like the politics, ignore the offending email and don't respond.
> 
> (ref. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/)

Mike, that is pure bullsh*t.  There's nothing that says TriLUG has to
let their servers be used for any purpose.  If you were to follow that
reasoning to the extreme then someone hacking into our servers 
and doing a DOS from them to the <insert whatever political party
you hate> party to protest something could be thought of as "free speech".
Um, no.  Not even.  If you don't like that, then by all means, feel
free to setup your own server and say whatever you want to, but
this is NOT, and I repeat NOT an appropriate forum for general
political postings.  Postings that are on topic and also include
political aspects to them are perfectly fine, but dammit Jim(tm),
this is a Linux and FOSS list, not a politics one.  If you want a
list where politcs is on topic, go over to Internetworkers (which,
btw, is a very fine list and my comments are not meant to
disparage them at all).

Tanner Lovelace