The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #23153 Message #257049
Posted By: GUEST,Mrr
13-Jul-00 - 10:06 AM
Thread Name: BS: censorship
Subject: RE: BS: censorship
One difference between a cafe and this site is that if someone is being boorish in a cafe, the other patrons do not have the choice of stopping hearing after the first few words. Here, you can stop reading. So in a real-life cafe, you DO need the folks around whose job it is to say Hey, that's enough of that. You DON'T need it here, in theory at least, because you can click away from anything you choose not to want to read. It used to be called voting with your feet - you just didn't GO somewhere if you knew you'd be offended. Here, you can vote with your index finger, or whatever you click with. No anatomical commentary necessary!