Re: Young people peering

Sn!pe wrote:

You appear to be advocating censorship.  Usenet is a rare bastion of
free speech.  All shades of opinion are given equal weight in the court
of its readership, including those opinions that some do not like.  This
is in the nature of debate.  Valid arguments will win debates, others
will fail.

Ignoring the fact that even free speech has limitations, Usenet is not
remotely an example of free speech—newsserver admins can freely downshut
anything they don't like, and many servers require a fee to use,
prohibiting the impoverished from using them.

The conceptualization of discussion as “debates” to be “won” is
regressive.  All members of a discussion come in with the goal of
expanding their knowledge, and whether or not their original position upon
entrance is correct or not is wholly irrelevant to the final outcome.

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