On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:47:49 -0500 John Newman <j...@synfin.org> wrote:
> > I don't support censorship, all your claims to the contrary ;) At the > same time, I don't support people telling me how I can configure my > own software on my own hardware whose network traffic I pay for. I "dully" note you seemt to have ignored everything else I said. > > For instance, I don't consider locking my mail server down so it's > not an open relay to be censorship (some people do - see toad.com). > Trying to enforce software configurations I'm not interested in, on > my shit, under any pretense, is fascism. As long as your hardware doens't carry other people's speech, fine. The facscist/conservtive dictum "my network, my fascist rules for speech" remains just that however. A fascist dictum. Anyway, I agree that some traffic can be classified as outright spam, like, say, advertising posted by bots, but blocking that sort of traffic is not really what's been discussed here.