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Re: A letter to Todd
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:53:02 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Kyle D. Jackson writes:
> > [...]
> > can.) At any rate, TLC was very quick to pull rank and serve LUGNET
> > with a legal order that the information be purged from the LUGNET
> > servers. There was no friendliness about this. It was an order that
> > had to be obeyed to avoid the legal consequences. It forced Todd
> > to do what I believe was a first for LUGNET: censor messages. This
> > all occurred against the backdrop of some promising and friendly
> > exchanges between LEGO Direct and LUGNETers.
>
> Just a couple of nits to pick: One, TLC can't "pull rank," although I'm
> sure that's not literally what you meant. Two, editorial control was not
> exercised, so "censor" isn't really accurate.
Yeah, I wasn't really happy with either of those two phrases. For
"pull rank" I just meant that TLC will not hesitate to execute
actions required for their business, and depending on how they do
that, it can be pretty unpleasant for the rest of us.
And instead of "censor" it was more like "entirely purge content into
oblivion".
I didn't want to get into that old incident too deeply, but I believe
there was a deal there where "one side" of TLC was saying that it
was friendly request to remove content, while the "other side" was
serving a legal notice. I specifically remember you posting a
correction to the former that no, it was not just a friendly request,
this had to be acted upon, there were no other options (short of
getting sued). If I could find the thread I would have just posted
a link to it.
Thanx,
KDJ
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LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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