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From: mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile)
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Subject: Re: Re: All or Nothing? ) Re: Re^5: Attorney General's Commission on Pornography
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Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 03:14:30 EDT
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> >>>It is likely that providers would then require proof of the
> 
> >How novel, a sane approach to Censorship!! :-).
> 
> >How about some sort of "ID card", which parents, probation officers, spouses,
> 
> Thank you for further expanding on this idea.  You have taken a more
> serious look at it than I did, and I think I could be talked into this
> approach in the "real world"; a few nagging doubts, but...
> 
> >>Not that it will happen.  We will either have censorship or we won't.
> >>Hysteria will either prevail or it won't.  "It's that simple".
> 
> Maybe I *was* oversimplifying here, and too pessimistic about politics.
> Rational policies *do* sometimes get instituted, even with reguard to sex.
> 
> Your linking of the card idea to truth-in-packaging is essential to the
> issue being taken seriously, and I thank you for your thoughtful article.
> (And MT for goading us all into thinking so hard, even if he does raise
> my bloodpressure sometimes... )

I'm happy to oblige.  Actually, I think that we are doing a Good Thing here
by finding a point upon which most of our values *can* be satisfied.  I *do*
have serious reservations about anything that would put the burden of
enforcement upon our current, overworked, abused, and rather ill system of
tort law.

Alas, I think that this would ``make too much sense'' and that the way to get
it is to first try applying mildly restrictive laws (see my replies to Rex B),
and then using a combination of the backlash from those and the reasoned
approach that might occur after the blood lust is settled to move in this
direction.

Remember, where the industry currently operates underground, it will be much
harder to make it respectable than it was to create, say, a diving equipment
rental industry that will not rent you gear unless you have a certifying card.
(remember also that in that industry there is a much more tangible and
expensive asset involved than the transaction than a magazine or videotape ...)
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