Posted by: ashu March 4, 2005
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San,
You did the right thing.
Despite its seemingly open and free-for-all nature, Sajha.com, at the end of the day,
is NOT a political democracy, and it should NOT even pretend to be one.
As you know, in 2002 and 2003, I used to push for COMPLETE, no-holds-barred freedom of speech on Sajha. Extending my own logic to the extreme, I had had no trouble extending that freedom even to those anonymous posters who were critical of me in starkly personal terms (for no reason).
[At the time, I figured that being a target of FALSE attacks was a small price for me
as an individual visitor to pay for the freedom of speech EVERYONE ought to enjoy on Sajha.]
But after having read too much stuff on private property rights (even on cyberspace),
I have found faults with my previous arguments, and have since changed my mind to say that:
Sajha.com is a private property on which the host -- you -- welcome "sabai Nepali" to post stuff that may be of interest to other interested-in-Nepal visitors. People are
free to either post stuff or not post anything and simply browse.
And as someone actually paying for the BULK of the Sajha-related expenses through your own money, time and efforts, and as someone who is the person ULTIMATELY responsible for what goes on in the name of this site, you are justified in throwing
out some posters and some of their postings who cross your (quite generous) sense
of what's acceptable and what's not.
That said, do keep the Sajha spirit of holding as-much-open-as-possible discussions
alive to allow DIVERSE and CONTRADICTORY views to be posted, discussed and debated in this forum.
oohi
ashu