[Kzyxtalk] MUSD board: Take no action on Item 9.4. MCN Listserves

[Marco McClean]

Marco McClean here. I'm writing to the school board to urge you to take 
no action on /Item  9.4. MCN Listserves/

It's very important that the MCN Announce listserv and the MCN 
Discussion listserv remain open forums for announcements and 
discussions, free from being (quote) "moderated" by a private party who 
would rather people and issues he personally dislikes be eliminated not 
just from his sight but from everyone else's. No-one should have that 
power. The listservs are working well. Let them work.

The main person I see complaining and wanting a change in this matter, 
David Gurney, has his own demons and anger issues to work out, that he 
relentlessly projects on others, He swears at people and belittles 
people and tries to hurt others' feelings as he imagines people are 
trying to hurt his and repeatedly demands that everyone /leave him 
alone/. He's a member of the community too, and that's fine; that's how 
he chooses to participate when he's at that place in his cycle; and 
regarding him and the very few others who have similar problems, this is 
generally understood.

Reading or not reading the work of any writer is under the control of 
individual readers, just like in any other public archive or any library 
or bulletin board.

For seven years starting in 1990, before most people had internet 
access, I edited the Mendocino Commentary newspaper and then published 
/Memo/, printing everything sent in, and distributing it throughout the 
county. Then I did the same thing on my radio show on countywide KMFB 
until 2011, and from 2012 through the present on KNYO and, for awhile, 
on KMEC too. I have a great deal of experience with people throwing a 
tantrum because someone they don't like wrote or said something they 
don't like, and it isn't enough for them to not read it, or to change 
the channel, they want to stop everyone else from seeing and reading and 
thinking about it too. It's never good to give censors a little power. 
Leave it up to the individual to choose what reading matter pleases him.

Every week an hour of the material for my current eight-hour Friday 
night radio show on KNYO comes directly from the Announce listserv, 
verbatim. MCN's policy regarding the listservs is perfect the way it is; 
please leave it the way it is.

Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com