> No, but that's mostly because NNTP yet had to be invented (RFC977 is from 1986 I started on usenet in the late 80s, so my worldview always had NNTP. > Yet m

> No, but that's mostly because NNTP yet had to be invented (RFC977 is from 1986 I started on usenet in the late 80s, so my worldview always had NNTP. > Yet much closer to 'censorship' than whatever goes on at your typical walled garden today. This is not true at any level. Again, in a walled garden there is only one master, it's in or out, you are in or out. Usenet is completely distributed, there is no center. Each site and each person can choose to not distribute or see certain things, but that has no influence outside their sphere of control. My site might no carry a given group, but many others do so I have choices. I might plonk you, but everyone else in the world sees your posts.