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MI5 Persecution: Toronto Freenet supports free speech (427)
#78237
Author: MI5Victim
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:39
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Despite an orchestrated campaign of attempted censorship by UK-resident newsgroup readers, TFN did not bow
to demands for a suppression of freedom of speech. TFN general policy on the matter is as follows; 

Draft Policy on Account Deactivations due to News Group Postings
================================================================ 

News group postings occasionally take the form of a message which goes against the "topic" of the conference.
For example, a derogatory message about Canadians in the soc.culture.canada. 

Members of such news groups then may send a message to the system administrators asking that a user's account
be terminated because of such posting. 

The Toronto Free-Net Board of Directors has taken the position that the only postings that will get a person's
account terminated is material that is illegal under Canadian law. Otherwise, the Toronto Free-Net will not
take any action. 

Freenet Executive Director Mike Anderson had this to say regarding the continued attempts of a minority of usenet
participants to have my account on his system deactivated; 

The TFN's policy is not to take action against members unless they contravene the Criminal Code of Canada, or
engage in practices such as forgery, attacks against other computer systems or mailbombing. 

Mr. Corley, while possibly being very annoying, has not contravened the TFN's policies. The TFN believes strongly
in freedom of expression, while recognizing that the price for such freedom may be a high signal-to-noise ratio in Usenet. 

If Mr. Corley breaks the law, we will take action -- until then, he has the same rights as any TFN member to post
to Usenet newsgroups. Actions such as mailbombing the TFN in protest will be met by strong complaints to the
originating site's postmaster. The best defense against unwanted postings may be simply be to ignore them and deny
the poster an audience. 

TFN Executive Director Toronto, Ont CANADA 

Personally, I find it gratifying that my contributions to usenet discussion are recognized as being conducive
to a high signal-to-noise ratio by their quality and thoughtfulness.

427


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Re: MI5 Persecution: Toronto Freenet supports free speech (427)
#78238
Author: nightbat
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:13
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not interesting

MI5Victim@mi5.gov.uk wrote:

> Despite an orchestrated campaign of attempted censorship by UK-resident newsgroup readers, TFN did not bow
> to demands for a suppression of freedom of speech. TFN general policy on the matter is as follows; 
> 
> Draft Policy on Account Deactivations due to News Group Postings
> ================================================================ 
> 
> News group postings occasionally take the form of a message which goes against the "topic" of the conference.
> For example, a derogatory message about Canadians in the soc.culture.canada. 
> 
> Members of such news groups then may send a message to the system administrators asking that a user's account
> be terminated because of such posting. 
> 
> The Toronto Free-Net Board of Directors has taken the position that the only postings that will get a person's
> account terminated is material that is illegal under Canadian law. Otherwise, the Toronto Free-Net will not
> take any action. 
> 
> Freenet Executive Director Mike Anderson had this to say regarding the continued attempts of a minority of usenet
> participants to have my account on his system deactivated; 
> 
> The TFN's policy is not to take action against members unless they contravene the Criminal Code of Canada, or
> engage in practices such as forgery, attacks against other computer systems or mailbombing. 
> 
> Mr. Corley, while possibly being very annoying, has not contravened the TFN's policies. The TFN believes strongly
> in freedom of expression, while recognizing that the price for such freedom may be a high signal-to-noise ratio in Usenet. 
> 
> If Mr. Corley breaks the law, we will take action -- until then, he has the same rights as any TFN member to post
> to Usenet newsgroups. Actions such as mailbombing the TFN in protest will be met by strong complaints to the
> originating site's postmaster. The best defense against unwanted postings may be simply be to ignore them and deny
> the poster an audience. 
> 
> TFN Executive Director Toronto, Ont CANADA 
> 
> Personally, I find it gratifying that my contributions to usenet discussion are recognized as being conducive
> to a high signal-to-noise ratio by their quality and thoughtfulness.
> 
> 427
> 
> 
Re: MI5 Persecution: Toronto Freenet supports free speech (427)
#78240
Author: Alterek
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:18
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nightbat <nightbat@home.ffni.com> wrote:

> not interesting

And cancelled.

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http://www.alterek.blog.pl/
Re: MI5 Persecution: Toronto Freenet supports free speech (427)
#78239
Author: Tester
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:19
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I only see the follow ups to these since I've got the author plonked
and he doesn't morph.

>From Google Groups it appears that Mike Corley's been posting similar
junk since 1998 and he was on Toronto Freenet at that time.

Torfree.org also had another interesting usenet denizen - bOb Allisat
- who also had to make sure that his VERY IMPORTANT POSTINGS about an
alleged injustice in Alberta were seen in Baltimore and New South
Wales regional n.g.'s.

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