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Article #4Re: IWF reports - some data
From: Peter McDermott
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 00:00
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In article <34f22ed0.1063991@news.demon.co.uk>, malcolm@pigsty.demon.co.uk (Malcolm McMahon) wrote: >>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? > >Censorship of what you're children view, whether you consider it right >or wrong, is still censorship. Only from the childs point of view. Parents may see it as informed guidance or assisted choices or some such. >The idea that lots of people are going to set PICS filters for >_themselves_ seems incredible to me. Why? If people *are* offended by this stuff, they won't have any more excuse to complain about it's availability if they set filters, will they? When they come here whining about porn on the net, we can tell them to "fuck off and set your PICS filters, fuckwit!" >What you've got to understand is >that moral outrage is an emotional reaction which people _enjoy_. You wouldn't be suggesting we *censor* this sordid vice, would you? :-)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fad9d,4caf990d8fd63e15 X-Google-Attributes: gidfad9d,public X-Google-Thread: 10fff2,4caf990d8fd63e15 X-Google-Attributes: gid10fff2,public X-Google-Thread: 10b38e,4caf990d8fd63e15 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b38e,public X-Google-Thread: 1080eb,4caf990d8fd63e15 X-Google-Attributes: gid1080eb,public From: news@petermc.demon.co.uk (Peter McDermott) Subject: Re: IWF reports - some data Date: 1998/02/23 Message-ID: <B117A91696681C231B@petermc.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 327968864 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: petermc.demon.co.uk [158.152.22.244] References: <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> <B116D529966822C3@cara.demon.co.uk> <34f22ed0.1063991@news.demon.co.uk> Organization: Nefarious Enterprises Newsgroups: talk,demon.service,news.admin.censorship,uk.net,uk.politics.censorship