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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 12:09:06 -0500
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On 4/3/2025 10:58 AM, cyclintom wrote:
> On Thu Apr 3 11:29:05 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:
>> On 4/3/2025 11:03 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 4/3/2025 9:54 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 09:12:46 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The forum LFGSS (London Fixed Gear and Single Speed) is
>>>>> among the early casualties of The Planners in the UK nanny
>>>>> state. Under the well invoked principle, "Everyone ought
>>>>> to, because I say so", newly enacted internet regulation
>>>>> makes online providers fully responsible for online content
>>>>> including purported crimes of "revenge [whether personal or
>>>>> by class], extreme pornography, sex trafficking, harassment,
>>>>> coercive or controlling behavior and stalking."
>>>>>
>>>>> Since interpretation of those can be highly subjective* and
>>>>> in light of the huge volume of content, every word of which
>>>>> is a possible offense, providers such as Microcosm, who
>>>>> wrote the popular group forum software, have deleted all
>>>>> activity and more have followed.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *c.f. plentiful examples of the last three right here on
>>>>> RBT. Or not. That's the nature of subjective evaluation.
>>>>
>>>> A week or so ago I read a notice that both Tom Sawyer and Alice in
>>>> Wonderland had been blacklisted by some group or another.
>>>>
>>>> Alice for the term "evil witch" or something similar.
>>>>
>>>> As for Tom I can only assume that any reference of the Civil war will
>>>> soon be unmentionable in polite society.
>>>
>>> Yes, there's that. And a greater loss, which is the nearly complete
>>> obliteration of Huckleberry Finn, a far superior volume to the forced
>>> and anemic Tom Sawyer. It's among the most powerful anti racism works
>>> ever published, but it's been banned in schools for decades.
>>
>> Hmm. I just reread it a month or so ago. I thought the portrayal of Jim
>> was too cartoonish. I also thought the ending was weak.
>>
>> Yes, just a subjective evaluation.
> 
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> 
> 
> Frank, you have spent a great deal of your life being subjective. Or should I say, strongly opinionated?


WTF??
I consider 'strongly opinionated' to be a compliment.

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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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