🚀 go-pugleaf

From article <1993Sep3.093527@vilya.gsfc.nasa.gov>, by barker@vilya.gsfc.nasa.gov (William J. Barker - CSC):
>
> In article <2665au$op3@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, kkw@wam.umd.edu (Katarina Wong O'Gara) writes:
> |> In article <CCqpqA.3G9@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,
> |> The Internet is gatewayed to high schools all
> |> over the country.
If it is, it shouldn't be.  Usenet is an 'adult' network.  The net is bad enough
given the standards of responsible behavior among the percentage of >18 in age
pre-pubescents it already possesses (case in point: my girlfriend for sale thread).
All we need is a bunch of high school students possessing even more
marginal control over their hormones.

Usenet already has a great many groups containing 'adult' discussions ranging the
gamut of sexual behavior.  Language, discussions, and pictures that many would
consider obscene are present on-line, no need to mail away.  There is no
centralized authority and thus very little censorship.  As such it is organized
by consenting adults, for consenting adults.  Sites that can't deal with this
format have no business attaching to it.

I'm not interested in attacking or defending this particular sale just pointing
out that the same arguments you apply to this sale apply to the net at whole.
Attacking this one sale is kind of ridiculous.

David Albrecht