From organtec@charter.net Fri Nov 29 15:32:46 2013
Subject:RE: Censorship on this forum!!

It would be very helpful if you would send your posts in a larger size so we wouldn’t need a magnifier to read them .Thanks, Keith



From: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of mikejfritz@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 4:57 PM
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CWSG] Censorship on this forum!!





The moderator has taken down my survey regarding clones, and will probably delete this post, but here's my response to him:



1)Never got your warning....not sure what you're talking about.

2)I've been tweaking the survey to accomodate my inaccuracies, already made several changes. I know full well that there were going to be some ommissions, but I'm a player, not a Hammond scholar. I was just trying to get the ball rolling so everyone on this board would benefit.

3)Any results I would release would include confidence intervals so that folks could make their own judgement.

4)Your objections 2 and 3 are heavy handed, as if you want to decide who has the right to rate a clone. I'm just trying to garner the averages(with confidence intervals); not the WHY. I purposely left a comments open field for each question if folks want to include their background and why for each clone. Asking everyone for their qualifications and rationale for rating is onerous and not fair.

5)I suggest you a copy of the US Constitution and check out the First Amendment, and specifically the section on free speech. I think it's incredibly heavy-handed to pull a survey when I already have 27 responses worldwide and many folks have provided information that I think would be beneficial to all Hammond enthusiasts.



Finally, let me remind you that censorship has been criticized throughout history for being unfair and hindering progress. For example:

* A 1993 Time Magazine article quotes computer scientist John Gillmore, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as saying "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." [33]
* In November 2007, "Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf stated that he sees government control of the Internet failing because the Web is almost entirely privately owned. [34]
* A report of research conducted in 2007 and published in 2009 by the Beckman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University stated that: "We are confident that the [censorship circumvention] tool developers will for the most part keep ahead of the governments' blocking efforts", but also that "...we believe that less than two percent of all filtered Internet users use circumvention tools". [35]
* A BBC World Service poll of 27,973 adults in 26 countries, including 14,306 Internet users, [36] was conducted between 30 November 2009 and 7 February 2010. The head of the polling organization felt, overall, that the poll showed that:

Despite worries about privacy and fraud, people around the world see access to the internet as their fundamental right. They think the web is a force for good, and most don’t want governments to regulate it. [37]

The poll found that nearly four in five (78%) Internet users felt that the Internet had brought them greater freedom, that most Internet users (53%) felt that "the internet should never be regulated by any level of government anywhere", and almost four in five Internet users and non-users around the world felt that access to the Internet was a fundamental right (50% strongly agreed, 29% somewhat agreed, 9% somewhat disagreed, 6% strongly disagreed, and 6% gave no opinion). [ 38 ]