Re: Razor Censoring EFF's Newsletter

On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:06 am, Graham Murray wrote:
> Marc Perkel <marc@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > EFF's newsletter is free speech and is sent only to subscribers. Razor
> > has miscategorized it as spam and as a result of that
> > miscatagorization the newsletter failed to reach the normal inbox of
> > users who legitimately wanted to recieve this information.
>
> That is ultimately the fault of the user, or his agent whom he
> 'hires' to deliver his email. If the agent (eg ISP) is blocking mail
> reported by Razor (or any other system) against the wishes of the
> user then the user should complain to the agent responsible.
>
You are absolutely correct.  Additionally, the ISP probably has some notice 
that turning on anti-spam features may result in loss of legitimate email, 
which the customer promptly forgets about.

> > Razor is interfering with the free speech rights of the Electronic
> > Frontier Foundation and the rights of 30,000 subscribers.
>
> No it is not. Although the EFF has the right of free speech to
> publish effector, people also have the right not to listen. I am not
> an American, so do not know your laws very well but would it be
> against the First Amendment free speech rules for a news vendor to
> refuse to stock a particular newspaper or magazine?
>
It would not violate the first ammendment.  Also, I use Razor, I also receive 
Effector hence the claim of interference is not valid.  A radio station has 
the right of free speech, however the claim that it was being interefered 
with because one of its users was too stupid to know how to tune his radio, 
would not be valid.
>

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