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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [aus.aarnet] Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.074533.17369@eff.org>
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,aus.aarnet
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
- Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:45:33 GMT
- Lines: 75
-
- [A repost - Carl]
-
- From: comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Peter Cooper)
- Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
- Subject: Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 11:56:00 +0800
- Message-ID: <1hltsgINNov9@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
-
- anthony@cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee) writes:
-
- >I don't understand why whenever the word "pornographic" comes up
- >everyone associates it with censorship and rights. If you want
-
- Because it immediately preceeds someone wanting censorship, and invokes
- discussion about rights.
-
- >the possibility is small and that there is no hard evidence
- >linking rapes and sexual abuses with pornographic picture.
-
- Quite true.
-
- >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
-
- Oh yes. "The earth is flat". What a wonderful instinct. Why not talk
- to the women on the net? Surely they are the people who you are asking
- to complain, if there are any complaints to be made?
-
- >that if you look at these pictures, you don't get turned on
- >(unless of course you are gay :-) ? A majority of people can
-
- How nice. And a little patronising smiley.
-
- >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 ?
-
- What exposure? As far as I understand, the images cannot be
- unexpectedly viewed. They must be GIFs or something and then ascii
- encoded, so not something that one would 'stumble across'. I would
- imagine it more difficult to decode one of these images, than to go to
- your corner shop, hand over a note of small denomination and unwrap the
- plastic?
-
- >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.
-
- Oh, and lets get rid of electricity in our homes. After all, it can
- lead to electrocutions of children and women in the home. Not only
- that, it allows Kentucky Fried Chicken advertisements to make savages of
- any men who view them.
-
- >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.
-
- Sure. That's what they all say. Come on. Why don't you start a
- petition to get rid of female nudes in renaissance art at your
- university fine arts library?
-
- Peter
-
- --
- email: comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au snail: Peter Cooper
- fax: +61 9 380 1041 Guild of Undergraduates
- phone: +61 9 380 3929 University of Western Australia
- "It was the banana that did it!" - Julia Marley
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
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