On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 01:52:54AM -0400, Jodi Hoffman wrote:
And more from this "only TEENAGERS and adults" website...
<MASSIVE SNIP> Ms. Hoffman, please stop posting this crap to the Cypherpunks list. It won't help. It is damned insulting to everyone here that you seem to expect us to confuse content with context. Although you seem to demand it, and although several people have allowed themselves to get dragged down to that level by your hyperbole and your refusal to talk about anything else, the content of the site is utterly irrelevant to this discussion. Please understand, the content of the site is NOT what the argument is about, and you constantly dragging it back into the discussion is unproductive, not to mention infuriating. The argument is about context -- whether it is tolerable to have laws that constitute prior restraint of speech. It is NOT. The content of the site is utterly irrelevant to this question, and posting chunks of it as though it were is only insulting the other subscribers of this list. Speech MUST remain free, even if the actions it advocates are both odious and illegal. Speech is not action. Suppressing speech on the basis of content, as though it were action, is intolerable. Content is not Context. Bear --- "And even though I say 'Fuck you', enthusiastically enough, it's not as though I ever would, not in a million years... Well, maybe if I was stoned off my ass, but that doesn't count...' Hunter S Thompson