From: joao+@cs.cmu.edu (Joao Costeira)
Subject: Re:bigotry,ignorance and racism-EXPLANATION!!!!
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:15:27 GMT


>Hello folks, this is Matisse Enzer at the WELL (Whole Earth
>Lectronic Link).  I am the Customer Support Manager here.

>Recently some posting were made to the following newsgroups from an
>account on the WELL:
>
[stuff deleted]
>
>These postings were made using the    hugoglez     account here on the
>WELL.  At first we thought that the matter was not serious enough to
>warrant our intervention, but the later, longer posting (which had a
>"ranking" of races etc) made us take a second look.  Yesterday morning
>we put the <hugoglez> account into a restricted shell and made
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>attempts to contact the owner of the account.

I'm not sure I follow this since I'm not aware of the previous
postings, but am I right in thinking that, because somebody said
something you think "unproper" he had his account locked? Is this
censorship? Who the hell are "we" (you!) ? God? The moral reserve of the
nation? McCarthy grandson? 

>We have spoken with Hugo Gonzalez and believe that he did not make the
>postings in question, and that the account had been cracked due to a
>weak password.  The password has been changed and the account returned
>to active status.

 What make you believe so? Hugo prayed, showing we had solid moral and
religious values? Did he prove he wasn't homosexual, did he paid his
taxes, never kicked his colleagues asses in high school? Or he just
"looks" like someone who would never had done it? Maybe he doesn't
even have a race!

>We apologize for the upset that this incident has caused and look 
>forward to WELL users continuing to be postive and valuable 
>participants in the Net.

This is to much. So we are a bunch of stupids who need protection from
the electronic KGB, because our handicapped minds might take his mail
serious. Instead of spitting it up he should had kept it to himself right?
If you like to live in such an hypocritical and fake world where
"political correctness" is imposed by fear and repression, I don't.
Mr. Gonzalez's (or whoever wrote it) ideas about race are more common
than you might think. It's not because you shut Mr X up that people
stop being racist. In fact, the posting is at least pedagogic because
it make us remember that racism (and a lot more) exist, are alive and
progressing. Can't you see racism around yuou everyday?
70 years of imposed silence in  Eastern Europe is not enough
to show you that it doesn't work? One doesn't stop being a racist
because has his mouth shut.
again:

>We apologise for the upset that this incident has caused and look 
>forward to WELL users continuing to be postive and valuable 
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>participants in the Net.

Do you at WELL, have a book with all the subjects "allowed",
"positive" and "valuable"? Maybe a lot of us should have our account
under restricted shell too.

It's amazing, we don't really learn. Whenever we can we do the same
mistakes again!!!! Before Tito died all Yugoslavians were well behaved
and absolutely correct. They had to, otherwise their "account" would
have been permanently restricted.

                Buenas noches 
                 Joao Paulo 
   
P.S. Besides the principle behind it, there is another point here:
Remember the Boston Mayor (or somebody else!) that wanted to put a ban on
those water guns;because a kid used a "real" gun to solve a "water
battle".  Missing the point all the time! Caramba!
   

	 
>PS:  If we have missed a newsgroup that someone is aware of, feel free
>to cross-post this message.

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