P.S. I can't _believe_ a Cypherpunk is actually advocating censorship.
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Gee Tim... I think we might have to send you back to the indoctrination center for some vocab' rehabilitation. After all, there are probably children reading this list.
If I recall (and it's been a couple years since I read this), Vonnegut makes the argument that the whole concept of obscenity and it's censorship is a Victorian thought control device. Whether it's TV executives putting per hour quota's on forbidden words, or yokeles getting _Lysistrada_ pulled from highschool classics courses, it's censorship and it's obscene.
Whew! Thanks, Brad, for setting me straight on this. I _did_ think you were endorsing censorship, not having seen the Vonnegut piece and not knowing he was making an ironic point. In my defense, to the extent there _is_ one, I've seen public figures go dotty (and I _do_ mean like Dorothy) in their old age, supporting all kinds of strange and fascist positions in defense of the Old Order. But I guess that in Vonnegut's case, that would be too unbelievable. (In Heinlein's case, though.....) I'm fucking relieved. --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."