Re: Re: Freedom to Spew

>>>>> "michael" == Michael Zara <[email protected]> writes:


  >> The denial of service angle is more direct than are willing to
  >> admit yet, as both elements of the comparison are means of
  >> communication.  A DOS attack on monkeyfist.com would end it's
  >> ability to serve it's prime public function, the dissemination of
  >> information, in exactly the same way that absconding with the
  >> entire printed run of a college newspaper would end it's ability
  >> to disseminate information.

  michael> I like this, especially when I look at the taking of the
  michael> whole print run in terms of what Bij noted as
  michael> (metaphorically) shouting down somebody in one venue, as
  michael> opposed to in ALL venues.  The problem with taking the
  michael> entire run of the paper is not that Horowitz is stifled in
  michael> this one venue (God knows -- and only God knows why -- he
  michael> has many others...) but that the *newspaper* itself -- all
  michael> its contributors and its "corporate" (in the classical not
  michael> business sense) editorial voice -- is silenced in its ONLY
  michael> venue

Well, presumably the paper has a web site, yes? So it may well be that
even this argument isn't factually grounded.

Kendall