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Article #10Re: IWF reports - some data
From: Peter Ceresole
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 00:00
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In article <34f7910d.17788137@news.demon.co.uk>, malcolm@pigsty.demon.co.uk (Malcolm McMahon) wrote: >In the sense that the authorised proxies could do that? The point is >that this is not an option while there is no significant use of rating >here. They can, and do, block specific sites for their whole population >but, for the most part, they have to accept or reject the web as a >whole. No. The point is that for the idea of ratings to work, it's not necessary to take any account of what *other* nations do. All that's necessary is for enough providers to make available enough rated sites to make it worth while for *users* to use the Net that way. That's all it takes. >Ratings are not censorship but they _enable_ censorship. Indeed, that's >what they are really for. Unless you are talking about self-censorship carried out by users (which isn't censorship by any normal definition of the term) that's ansolute nonsense. What evidence *at all* do you have for that silly statement? -- Peter
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fad9d,4caf990d8fd63e15 X-Google-Attributes: gidfad9d,public X-Google-Thread: 10b38e,4caf990d8fd63e15 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b38e,public X-Google-Thread: 1080eb,4caf990d8fd63e15 X-Google-Attributes: gid1080eb,public X-Google-Thread: 10fff2,4caf990d8fd63e15 X-Google-Attributes: gid10fff2,public From: peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) Subject: Re: IWF reports - some data Date: 1998/02/23 Message-ID: <B116D529966822C3@cara.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 327749628 References: <B1104BE996682E54E@cara.demon.co.uk> <34eede28.4746800@news.demon.nl> <B111022B96684F38E@cara.demon.co.uk> <35023b83.4231466@news.demon.nl> <B112369C966834313@cara.demon.co.uk> <6cit45$dg$1@news1.mnsinc.com> <B112EA18966815E08@cara.demon.co.uk> <6claet$pvg$1@news1.mnsinc.com> <B1143F3196682CC2C@cara.demon.co.uk> <34eea32c.90872985@news.demon.co.uk> <B115255296686C1E@petermc.demon.co.uk> <34f2e47e.1751340@news.demon.co.uk> <B1162EAD96683466@cara.demon.co.uk> <34f7910d.17788137@news.demon.co.uk> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: cara.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.67] Organization: none Newsgroups: talk,demon.service,news.admin.censorship,uk.net,uk.politics.censorship