Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!sumax!polari!rwing!nanook From: nanook@rwing.UUCP (Robert Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Judge for Yourself Summary: slippery slope Keywords: Fact Fancy Paranoid Bizarre Message-ID: <165@rwing.UUCP> Date: 5 Oct 90 18:16:42 GMT References: <1084@lsicom2.UU.NET> <6432@hub.ucsb.edu> <1990Oct04.001804.18056@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> Organization: Totally Unorganized Lines: 12 In article <1990Oct04.001804.18056@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>, zippy@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts) writes: > If we make this illegal, then what's to stop "them" > from making this, this, and this illegal? Obviously nothing. The consitution has been for all intents and purposes dismanteled and rejected. At least all of the values that went into the making of the consitution, individual liberty and freedom, seem to have been lost. I'm sure the only reason the net hasn't been outlawed, or more rigorously controlled, YET, is that the authorities aren't convinced anyone posting gets taken seriously anyway.