Re: [OFFTOPIC] Censorship is good, actually. If you don't like that fact, maybe you should commit some client-side censorship, otherwise known as the killfile.

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 10:42:19 +0100, snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:

Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:

On 21.04.2024 um 09:45 Uhr Sn!pe wrote:

I find it hard to believe that genuine new users of Usenet might
sincerely hold such regressive, trollish views.  If "cancel culture"
takes root in Usenet one might as well be on Twitter.

 
In my age group (Gen Z), such views are widespread.

>
"I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend
to the death your right to say it."  -- ascribed to Voltaire

"Monsieur l' abbe,      je deteste ce   que   vous ecrivez, mais je donnerai
 My sire  of the abbey, I  detest  that which you  write,   but  I  would donate

 ma vie  pour que  vous puissiez           continuer   a  ecrire."
 my life for  that you  have the puissance to continue to write.

 --from a quotation by Norbert Guterman, editor of 'A Book of French
   Quotations', alleged to be from an original Voltaire letter dated
   6 Feurier 1771 to M. le Riche (possibly apocryphal, non sequitur).