Re: The Real Plan: Making the Net Safe for Censorship

[Lizard <lizard@dnai.com>]

At 07:42 PM 7/16/97 -0700, Ross Wright wrote:
>On or About 16 Jul 97 at 18:12, Lizard wrote:
>
>> At 04:47 PM 7/16/97 -0700, Ross Wright wrote:
>> >Marc:
>> >
>> >What a bunch of crap!  Keep out of the internet, you government
>> >flunky.  Let business, commerce and freedom of speech remain in
>> >it's new home, Cyberspace.  And save your regulations for someone
>> >who needs them.
>> 
>> You will get a lot more respect on the net once you learn how to
>> read messages. I'll leave it you to figure out what you got wrong.
>
>Umm, I think I understood the message, and Mr. Rotenberg's 
>involvement in the politics of censorship, as it relates to the 
>Internet.
>
No, you do not.

>> Sheesh. And I retreated to mailing lists to get away from this kind
>> of stuff on USENET.
>
>What?  I just feel that there should be no laws or resolutions or 
>promises made or kept by the United States Government about the 
>internet.
>
That's not the kind of stuff I'm referring to.

>On or About 16 Jul 97 at 14:42, Declan McCullagh wrote, about 
>something that Marc Rotenberg <rotenberg@epic.org> wrote:
>
>>On the other hand, without a proper law, 
>
>See, when they say "without" that means they think we need one.
>
>>parents can purchase and
>>activate measures to protect their children from adult material and
>>still not feel secure in their homes from unwanted material.  
>
>Ohhhh, so scary.  Not safe in the home!  Imagine that.

Sigh. While occasionally I am prone to fits of charity and altruism, today
is not one of those days. I shall leave it to someone more merciful than I
(such as, perhaps, the Marquis de Sade, or Attila the Hun) to explain your
error to you. Perhaps Marc himself will enlighten you, though, frankly, I
hope he doesn't, as this could provide much amusement over time.