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Wakko Warner (cook@rzdisk.enet.qntm.com) wrote:
: In article <3s44sa$jfp@crl3.crl.com>, ivler@crl.com (J.M. Ivler) writes:
: >Wakko Warner (cook@rzdisk.enet.qntm.com) wrote:
: >: 	If you have something against banning smut on the Internet I
: >: 	have to ask, why? Go to the combat zone. Banning bad
: >: 	language? Good. Maybe it will clean up some of the filth
: >: 	around here.
: >
: >So you would have no problem with someone setting up a canclebot to 
: >eliminate all your posts? Once you start burning books and taking away 
: >the freedom of speech, you have started down the road to true tyranny. 
: >NOTHING is ever worth the elimination of the freedom to speak. That is 
: >why that is the 1st Amendment!
: 
: 	We have freedom of speech, yet you cannot yell fire in a crowded
: 	theatre, you cannot post death threats, and you cannot libel
: 	and/or slander someone without consequences.
: 

1) what's that have to do with the fact that the United States Senate has 
passed an amendment attached to a bill that takes a good bill and turns 
it into TRASH. The Exon Amendment violates the 1st Amendment of the Bill 
of Rights. IT IS WRONG! My whole point was not that it was right or 
wrong, but that saying the "demmocrats" are worse then the "republicans" 
is a crock. 

Both parties would be more than willing to take away various portions of 
the Bill of Rights to seek their just causes. That was the point. The 
original poster wanted to paint the "democrats" as villians, but it isn't 
that easy. It isn't one party or the other, but it is people that want to 
CONTROL and limitting information, and access to it, is part of that control.

2) You should actually be supporting PGP and signatures as you will be 
able to say exactly who created a post, and you will know who libels, 
slanders, post death threats and yells "fire" on the Internet. It won't 
be "Oh, I didn't do that, it was forged" as it will have the users 
signature on it...

Finally... unlike most posters on the net, I have put my money where my 
mouth is. I raised over $20K and ran for the U.S. House of Reps. I gave 
up a part of my life to try to make a difference... So, when you put your 
job, reputation, and family on the line for what you believe in, maybe 
your call for acceptable government censorship will have a bit more 
validity. 

jmi
ivler@crl.com