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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: banning pornography
Message-ID: <2291@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 17:51:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: mnetor.2291
Posted: Mon Sep 30 17:51:50 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Sep-85 19:20:58 EDT
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Reply-To: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Summary: 

In article <886@utcs.uucp> flaps@utcs.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>>Could you specify what you mean by people-controlled censorship? Does it
>>involve private citizens interfering with legally guaranteed rights?
>I suppose so.  I don't believe at all in the existing legal system.  I
>think it protects big horrible corporations etc etc.

Yeah, it does, but then it also protects individuals sometimes.  If you condone
the illegal interference by private citizens into other citizens' guaranteed
rights, then you are condoning activities you might not approve of, such as
harrassment of women who are entering abortion clinics, harassment of people
because of their sexual orientations and so on, who knows?  Civil disobedience
is a two-edged sword.
-- 
Sophie Quigley
{allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie


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