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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin] Re: "Computers graphic when it comes to porn"
- Message-ID: <9208121459.AA18293@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Originator: daemon@eff.org
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 04:59:30 GMT
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- From: mcb@foucault.postmodern.com (Michael C. Berch)
- Newsgroups: news.admin
- Subject: Re: "Computers graphic when it comes to porn"
- Message-ID: <920811.1523457463@foucault.postmodern.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 07:04:29 GMT
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- In the referenced article, clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
- > [With respect to alt.sex.bondage:]
- > The suggestion simply was: come on guys, do us a favour. We'd like
- > to receive the main stuff, but the odd bit gives our government
- > indigestion. How about a split? Or a little gentle reminder from
- > time to time to get the odd posting redirected to somewhere more
- > appropriate.
-
- I've stayed out of this so far, but I don't think you understand how
- offensive I (and others) find the above paragraph. I have absolutely
- no interest in any cooperation, no matter how slight, with any form of
- state censorship. I believe that censorship is not merely evil but Evil,
- and if your government gives you problems about that, I think you
- should oppose them. I have no interest in giving even trivial respect
- to Canadian laws that restrict freedom of expression. I consider them
- an offense to human rights and urge you to oppose them, to struggle
- against them, to rise up and dismantle the institutions that
- implement them, by means of the ballot, by means of protest, civil
- disobedience, demonstration, samizdat, interference, and unblinking
- opposition.
-
- And to that end I believe that it is not only a right but a duty of
- Americans to make it as difficult as possible for Canadian (or any
- other state's) censors to do their job. If the Ontario Film Review
- Board's building was on fire, believe me, (other than to rescue
- trapped people), I would not put water on it.
-
- So if censorship (and pressures to resist it, i.e., by cross-border sites
- that send you "illegal" material) gives you a problem, get on your
- MLA's case. Don't come whining to Americans telling us to cool it; I
- think instead we should turn up the heat.
-
- Just Say NO to censors -- AND those who collaborate with them.
-
- --
- Michael C. Berch
- mcb@postmodern.com
-