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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [aus.aarnet] Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.074513.17248@eff.org>
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,aus.aarnet
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:45:13 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- [A repost - Carl]
-
- From: anthony@cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee)
- Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
- Subject: Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <11521@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 23:25:56 GMT
-
- I don't understand why whenever the word "pornographic" comes up
- everyone associates it with censorship and rights. If you want
- to talk about the rights of people wanting to look at
- pornographic pictures then what about the rights of people who
- have to suffer as a consequence of those pictures. Some argue
- the possibility is small and that there is no hard evidence
- linking rapes and sexual abuses with pornographic picture.
-
- I want to say forget about your hard evidence and look at your
- own instinct (here I am talking to males on the net). Most
- people at one time or another is bombarded with pictures of naked
- females. Even the recent Kentucky Fried Chicken ad on TV has
- pictures of nearly naked females. Now can you tell me honestly
- that if you look at these pictures, you don't get turned on
- (unless of course you are gay :-) ? A majority of people can
- control their sexual desires but what do we do with the minority
- ? You may argue that there are already enough pornography at the
- newsagent and so why limit it on the net. Well, I ask you
- shouldn't we at least try to limit the amount of exposure ?
- Wouldn't it be better just to forgo something like pornography
- then to know that it could lead to acts of violence against
- females and even childern ? Ok, the possiblity may be as low as
- 0.0001% but is cutting out pornography on the net such a great
- lost ? If you can't live with dirty pictures on your X-terminal
- then why don't you just buy a copy of Penthouse and scan the
- picture and have it as your background.
-
- Please try to think of this issue as a matter of protecting the
- rights of women and childern. It is not a issue of big brother.
-
-
- --
- Anthony Lee (Time Lord Doctor) (These are my opinions !)
- email: anthony@cs.uq.oz.au voice:+(61)-7-3651204 FAX:+(61)-7-3651999
- SNAIL: Department Computer Science, The University of Queensland,
- St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
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