Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: alt.sex.bondage (was Re: Censorship) Message-ID: <2046@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 24 Jan 90 17:47:56 GMT References: Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 20 In article karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: | I know "Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted" is a long-running joke, and | I too am quick to (at least privately) ridicule people who post stuff like | that, but I think this a.s.b story, "Cindy's Torment," could cause a lot | of problems for the net, like some underage kid is going to read it, his | or her parents find out and go bananas. | | Being against this stuff is like being against drugs -- it's real easy to be | righteous and anybody who's not as against it as you are can be attacked as | being for it. I think the weight of the state may come down hard against it | because it *is* a genuine source of outrage to a lot of people. And the people who post this stuff will call you a facist if you delete it. They have nothing to lose and expect you to defend their right to be offensive. I canned the article on three systems, and if it becomes a problem will consider deleting the group. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me