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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs
- Subject: Problems running boards with controversial stuff?
- Message-ID: <711927869snx@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 21:44:29 GMT
- References: <-hgmhph@lynx.unm.edu>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: What organization???
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- In article <-hgmhph@lynx.unm.edu> cslewis@vesta.unm.edu writes:
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- > who operate BBS's which deal with controversial things (hacker
- > stuff, adult material, far-out politics...)
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- > Have you encountered any legal harassment? Or have the feds mellowed
- > out and learned something since Operation Sun Devil?
- Are you living in a free country, or what? (Or is this still the middle ages?
- If so, please wake me up in 1992...)
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- Adult material is controversial? I know that many christians consider adult
- material as 'evil'. But why do they not simply limit their children's freedom
- instead of limiting someone else's freedom? It's THEIR decision to breed their
- children in a christian way, so it's THEIR responsibility to do it that way,
- and not someone else's. If they are affraid of nude BBSes, then they should get
- a lock on their modem.
-
- Why not close down USENET? I mean, a (rich?) 14 year old boy can receive the
- alt.sex newsgroups, can't he? Who is going to check the age of all USENETters?
-
- Sorry, this has nothing to do about BBSes and maybe this belongs to
- soc.human.rights. But then, the original posting doesn't belong in Europe
- either... <sigh>
-
- Greetings,
- Peter Busser
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- I don't do .sigs
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