On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Lyos Gemini Norezel <lyos.gemininorezel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul W. Frields wrote: > > Let me see if I can clarify a bit here. Your rights in the USA are > meant to be guarantees against the *government* stopping you from > speaking. Not private entities. > > True. Only to a point. Your natural rights, which are inalienable and universal, including liberty are not conferred on you by any government. The Fedora Project can quash your speech if it so chooses without violating your legal rights in the USA, but one can still argue with some merit that it violates your natural rights. Regardless, I think we should let this effort run its course for a while and see how it works out. There is no certainty anyone is going to be prevented from making any point they desire to make, they might be asked to make their points in a more civil and respectful way. There is certainly some cost to going down this road, but there is some cost in not doing anything as well. We have a board to try to negotiate these sorts of murky waters on our behalf, and I'm sure if it doesn't work out well appropriate remedial action will be taken. John _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
