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Skriven 2011-07-13 17:25:51 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
  Kommentar till text 19664 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: Sole Moderator
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Hello Björn,

 LL>> A handful of fidonet "administrators" have kept certain individuals
 LL>> from being able to speak in public venues in fidonet echoes. One of
 LL>> those fidonet echoes is the fidonews echo.

BF>Absolutely wrong. I can assure you that since I am the sole
BF>moderator of this echo. Nobody will ever be deprived of their
BF>constitutional (Swedish) right to speak in this echo as long
BF>as I am editor and consequently moderator.

SOLE MODERATOR.

Ross C., Janis K., and Robert B. are not going to like that...

 LL>> This country has flourished because we allow ALL OPINIONS TO BE
 LL>> HEARD.

BF>Please do not confuse this echo with the situation in your country.

The point is this echo should also be based on the same fundamental
principle of allowing ALL OPINIONS TO BE HEARD.

BF>This echo is now under control of a European "tyrant" and
BF>consequently, in the far legal end, will abide to European
BF>constitutional rights.

All participants (and lurkers) in this forum are members of the
fidonet community, regardless of geographic location or nationality.
After all, this is an "international" echo, as is fidonet itself.
As sole moderator, you cannot be a European "tyrant" any more than
you could be a Swedish "tyrant" or any other kind of geographic
"tyrant".  We are all citizens of fidoland, and swear allegiance
to no Swede, American, Russian, Australian, New Zealander, or any
other nationalist.

 LL>> Once upon a time, fidonet also flourished. But that was
 LL>> when fidonet sysops allowed all voices to be heard. Today that
 LL>> is no longer true.

BF>Ahem, methinks you are confusing the past with the present here.

"What's past is prologue." - William Shakespeare

BF>Once upon a time fidonet was kept in a very short USA-leash. We
BF>were not allowed to use all the characters in our languages (and
BF>we still are not in the nodelist). We had to connect to USA via
BF>extremely expensive Atlantic lines to be allowed to be connected
BF>to our "hobby" network.

Then unleash the chains that bind you.  The key is in your hand.

 LL>> The question is, why do fidonet sysops continue to do the bidding
 LL>> of tyrants?

BF>The answer is: almost none of them do any longer.

If only that were true.  But here's your chance to prove that
you are not a lackey of Ross Cassell and Janis Kracht -

DO AWAY WITH THAT "GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT" BETWEEN YOU AND ROSS CASSELL.

Think you can do that?
I know you can.
All you have to do is say the magic words.

 LL>> You know who those tyrants are.

BF>Actually, no, I do not. Pray tell, who do you think they are?

Namely ROSS CASSELL and his lackey/enabler JANIS KRACHT.
And you have helped them carry out their "war" against me,
Wayne Chirnside, Frank Scheidt, Bob Klahn, John Wilson,
and others.  I'll leave out the names of sysops who went
along with their mad plan, as some were blackmailed into
submission and others simply did not know about it.

 LL>> The question is, which fidonet sysops choose to remain tyrants,
 LL>> and which fidonet sysops choose the path of freedom.

BF>That question would have been valid around 1992, when fidonet
BF>took a turn away from the technicians as per P4.3.8 and went
BF>totally political. But not any more.

That question is always relevant.  Even more so today than in
times past.  Everything we do in life is political.  After all,
man is a political creature, as well as a social creature.  As
such, you cannot remove politics from fido any more than you
can remove the very life you have (well, you can but that would
not be a good idea, as you can only do it once).

--Lee

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