From: "steve duffy" <[log in to unmask]>
From the outside of all this ...
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i see you'd rather not answer my questions directly. you also seem to
want to suggest that kent put himself on "review" status.
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Kent's posts, it seems, were being put on review because he was liable to
break both copyright and Jiscmail protocols. None of his 'normal' posts (as
Candice made clear) were or are being censored.
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i'll have to presume this list is now a "red zone".
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Bullshit. Or whaledreck.
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i happen to think that people need to be exposed to that which they
would not necessarily seek, to topics and points of view that are
perhaps strange or irritating. i think that to routinely filter out
contrary opinions is dangerous - it's not my idea of democracy [or
freedom].
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Tell that to Buffalo. Or brit-poets. Or subsub. Kent has strings of
previous -- maybe it's not his fault, maybe it's coincidence, maybe he's
being pursued across the cyberwaves by David Hess.
Chance, happenstance, malice aforethought ...
Frankly, I think the moderators of poetryetc are dealing with this in an
exemplary fashion.
Let's nor forget, Jeffrey "Lord" Archer was sent down for four years for
perjury and perverting the course of justice -- if they had taken his
'literary activity' into account, it would have been +much+ longer.
Robin Hamilton
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