TDPL a bad idea?

[Yigal Chripun]

On 02/02/2010 21:47, retard wrote:
> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:20:19 -0500, Bane wrote:
>
>
>>> Except that you could argue that the government is censoring it for the
>>> people, thereby making it an outside force imposing control on the
>>> inside. Merriam-Webster's online definition would tend to go with the
>>> whole "outside force" idea:
>>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censor . Generally speaking,
>>> censorship refers to one group cutting out or blocking material from
>>> coming into contact with another group, but you might be able to argue
>>> that it doesn't _have_ to be an outside force. Still, in any kind of
>>> normal use, it would be.
>>>
>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>
>> Legal/moral mumbo jumbo. There are group with resources to provide/deny
>> something to other groups, and there are those without that power.
>> Reason for first to do it at first place? Same why dog licks his ass -
>> because he can.
>>
>> So if admin of his mailing list can exercise his power to make it more
>> useful to majority of readers on expense of few (troublesome)
>> individuals, the better. Its not like anyone is going to gulag if placed
>> on ban list, for fucks sake.
>
> At least in this newsgroup it's easy to get into peoples' killfile. Just
> disagree with your beloved deitys, Andrei and W. A good way to piss them
> off is to mention dmd's broken support for tuples or .stringof, critizise
> the featuritis and language inconsistency, support Tango, or know
> something about functional languages.

Walter is a very reasonable person to talk with whether you agree or 
disagree with his point of view. He never gets angry at anyone and he'll 
have a discussion even with the worst troll if he's got a tiny potential 
of an interesting point to make in the discussion.
That's my experience at least.
He wouldn't even ban superdan, which frankly I would had i been in 
Walter's shoes.