[Yadda Yadda] Re: Any examples of mandatory content rating?

[Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>]

On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, jim bell wrote:

> At 10:59 AM 4/13/96 -0400, Black Unicorn wrote:

> >Still, governments are quite talented at making ratings schemes look 
> >voluntary when practically speaking they are not.
> 
> You know, it's amazing how you fail to ask and answer obvious questions when 
> they arise!  Why, exactly, should the government NEED to "make ratings 
> schemes look voluntary when practically speaking they are not"?

(Snore)  If you need me to explain this to you.....

  After  all, 
> you would love to take the position that the government has this authority 
> anyway.  Is it possible you're just afraid to admit that the government(s) 
> doesn't have this authority? 

You have no idea what my position is, so you have to invent it.

Really you grow quite boring.  This begins to fall into pattern behavior.

> system would collapse.  At that point, there will be no government "threat" 
> to regulate, because everybody will realize that the system is working just 
> fine without regulation.  Everyone will see an unregulated Internet, and 
> nobody will see a powerful need to regulate it. 

If you bothered to read what I said, you would notice that you just 
repeated it nearly exactly.

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