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Re: Against "PR-action against Jefsey Morfin"

2006-01-24 16:18:18
    > From: "william(at)elan.net" <william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net>

    > Free speech is at the core of discussions at IETF and those
    > representing minority positions should not be prevented from
    > expressing it 

OK, I'll bite. How do you reconcile this principle with defending someone who
has tried to get people penalized for saying what they think? It seems to me
that there's a logical contradiction there: Jefsey gets to say whatever he
wants, but others can't?

I refer you to the most interesting:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.ltru/1033

especially where it says things like "Reuters, my employer, received the
following message today" and "'We will contact tomorrow the Reuters legal
department in Paris we will then copy and ask an acknowledgment from.'" (And
anyone who thinks that message to Reuters was not an attempt to create trouble
for someone with their employer is being deliberately obtuse.)

        Noel

PS: The IETF is *not* here to provide free speech. It's here to write
protocols. Speech is subsidiary to that goal.

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