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Andrea Gargas

The internet is a GLOBAL community - and indecency varies greatly from
culture to culture. In Copenhagen, Denmark the children's reading room at
the main library does include a book section on sex - right next to the
section on human anatomy. Whose standards of indecency should apply?
Realistically, can enough censors/translators be employed to determine
whether posts such as the following verse by B. S. Ingemann contain any of
the FCC's seven dirty words?

    Nu titte til hinanden de favre blomster smaa,
    de muntre fulge kalde paa hverandre,
    nu alle jordens bo/rn deres o/jne opslaa,
    nu sneglen med hus paa ryg vil vandre.

It is simply not possible to apply any fair and just standard of 'decency'
to the international internet community.

-Andrea Gargas

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