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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [aus.aarnet] Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.074726.17948@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 07:47:26 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- [A repost - Carl]
-
- Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
- From: gja@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Grenville Armitage)
- Subject: Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <9300609.18232@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:53:38 GMT
-
- In article <1ibbrfINN2hp@flash.pax.tpa.com.au> dclunie@pax.tpa.com.au writes:
- >In article 9737@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU, gja@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Grenville Armitage) writes:
- >>But so few people in our western society are truely censored.
- >>They just whinge that things aren't paid for by others.
- >
- >Are you serious ? You are an adult right ?
-
- No, I'm a gifted horse.
-
- >Can you watch a movie in this country
- >that has not been approved by someone else ?
- >They actually take bits out and say
- >"no I don't think the likes of Grenville should see this" and you never do.
- [..]
- >Of course I guess you are not truly censored.
-
- You've missed a perfect analogy. The govt may censor a particular "newsfeed"
- (TV, public video libraries, etc) - but I'm still able to get almost any
- movie direct from the source on tape, no? So, no I'm not really censored.
-
- [..]
- >But someone has said, "no Grenville should do this, even
- >though no-one is being harmed by his actions, regardless of whether they are
- >consensual or not".
- >
- >Of course I guess this is not truly censorship. [..]
-
- No, I consider govt intrusion into consensual arrangements as a problem too.
-
- Of course, if you'd read what I writ, you'd not have got into such a flap.
- Much chest beating over censorship is merely about how easy it is to
- obtain XYZ documents or material. So few people are truly censored,
- because the instances of true censorship (where _all_ possible avenues
- of access to XYZ are blocked or removed) apply to few activities in
- our society.
-
- gja
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-