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Subject: 
Re: Terms and Conditions Question
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 5 May 1999 14:01:43 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Simon Denscombe writes:

I don't think that the terms and conditions cover homophobic posts.
A statement in an off-topic group LIKE "I think that all homosexuals are
ill and can be cured by specialist treatment" is not obscene,
pornographic, etc.

No, that statement is simply inane, uneducated and illogical.  IMO, most Lugnet
users would simply, ignor it as such or explain why the statemnt was
illogical.

Unfortunately its the kind of statement that runs rampant through
rec.sport.boxing - who'd a thunk!



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  Re: Terms and Conditions Question
 
(...) Inane? Uneducated? Illogical? It makes as much sense as the reverse, that all heterosexuals are ill and can be cured by special treatment...after all, it's not the homosexuals that are clogging up the earth with over population. ;-) (...) Me. (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) I can't believe you fell for that! I hope that was sarcastic but I can't tell - homophobic - hating + despising anything homosexual. I don't think that the terms and conditions cover homophobic posts. A statement in an off-topic group LIKE "I (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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