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Article #15Re: IWF reports - some data
From: Malcolm McMahon
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 00:00
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On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 08:22:09 +0000, peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >In article <6claet$pvg$1@news1.mnsinc.com>, >daolath@news1.mnsinc.com (Mike Williams) wrote: > >>You're quoting out of context. Purely voluntary tagging doesn't, as you point >>out, infringe on any rights. I am arguing against the proposed *mandatory* >>tagging scheme. I am also worried about the possibility of a voluntary scheme >>being turned into a mandatory scheme when slow-witted vote-hungry politicians >>hear about it. > >First; nobody engaged in the practical business of devising up a system >(ISPs, IWF, government) is proposing a mandatory tagging scheme although >Loe is advocating one. But I think we've pretty much agreed on that. > >However if they *were* proposing a compulsory rating scheme, even that is >*not* prior restraint in any reasonable sense of the word. > Does it become prior restraint when (as they almost certainly will) Singapore & China use these codes in their mandatory authorised proxies?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fad9d,4caf990d8fd63e15 X-Google-Attributes: gidfad9d,public X-Google-Thread: 10b38e,4caf990d8fd63e15 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b38e,public X-Google-Thread: 10fff2,4caf990d8fd63e15 X-Google-Attributes: gid10fff2,public X-Google-Thread: 1080eb,4caf990d8fd63e15 X-Google-Attributes: gid1080eb,public From: malcolm@pigsty.demon.co.uk (Malcolm McMahon) Subject: Re: IWF reports - some data Date: 1998/02/21 Message-ID: <34eea32c.90872985@news.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 327222314 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <B10DA23D96681CF69@cara.demon.co.uk> <34ea4c0b.1090270@news.demon.nl> <B10E57E796684BD92@cara.demon.co.uk> <34ee248b.1431056@news.demon.co.uk> <B1104BE996682E54E@cara.demon.co.uk> <34eede28.4746800@news.demon.nl> <B111022B96684F38E@cara.demon.co.uk> <35023b83.4231466@news.demon.nl> <B112369C966834313@cara.demon.co.uk> <6cit45$dg$1@news1.mnsinc.com> <B112EA18966815E08@cara.demon.co.uk> <6claet$pvg$1@news1.mnsinc.com> <B1143F3196682CC2C@cara.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pigsty.demon.co.uk [158.152.84.59] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Newsgroups: talk,demon.service,news.admin.censorship,uk.net,uk.politics.censorship