Text 1077, 60 rader
Skriven 2004-08-09 01:43:51 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
    Kommentar till text 975 av Dawn Robicheaux (1:396/65.0)
Ärende: Re: AOL Censorship - have you
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Hey, Dawn.

 EC>> It would take more evidence than that to get me to believe it.  Do you
 EC>> believe one way or the other?

 DR> I don't believe AOL has a policy of censoring "Christian e-mail."  The
 DR> very  thought is ludicrous.

That is not valid evidence.

 DR> I've seen chain letters on AOL passed from one recipient to dozens more
 DR> prompting prayer, promoting Christian belief, belief in God, belief in
 DR> angels, and prompting visits to web sites where one could find much
 DR> more on religion.

There you go, you have presented some evidence.  That's more than Gary ever
did.

 DR>  So the author has a way to go before she can establish some
 DR> credibility for her claim that some of her email was being censored.

I seem to recall that she suspected but didn't exactly claim it was being
censored.

 DR> Then she'd have a difficult time proving it was being censored for
 DR> that reason.

I don't think she claimed to have proved anything.  She merely had evidence
that seemed to indicate that something was rotten in Denmark.

 DR> I mean, there are many possible reasons why she may have been targeted
 DR> by someone who has chosen to censore her email.  It could be an
 DR> employee of AOL who's upset with her because she's complained about the
 DR> service.  It could be a hacker. She might be encountering technical
 DR> problems that have nothing do with the religious content. She may be
 DR> fabricating a story for political purposes.  She wants us to believe
 DR> that AOL is also censoring e-mail that's anti-Kerry.  I started to say
 DR> that I haven't seen any e-mail that's anti-Kerry, but I just remembered
 DR> that I have seen some nasty anti-Democratic tripe.  It was a rather
 DR> ugly piece, and not the kind of e-mail I want to find in my mailbox in
 DR> the morning.

"nasty anti-Democratic tripe"  Now who would do something like that?

But getting back to the subject, you list several possibilities.  That
indicates that you don't really know what the reason was.  Right?

 DR> So, again, the author's claims don't sound valid.

Don't sound?  Okay.  I'll accept that.  It simply means that you are
comparing her experience with your own and they don't seem to be the same.
That's legitimate.

 DR> In any event, Hull talks about having "similar" experiences a decade
 DR> ago.  That's ten years, Ed.  What are we to make of John's claim?

I think John is willing for you to make whatever you like.

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