I'm from the Usenet generation. No user accounts, no way to ban anyone and no way to block anyone, only client-side message filters. The alt.* hierarchy was an

I'm from the Usenet generation. No user accounts, no way to ban anyone and no way to block anyone, only client-side message filters. The alt.* hierarchy was an early iteration of the "censorship free" concept and this is why we can never speak of Usenet again.