At 10:41 PM -0700 7/15/96, Damaged Justice wrote:
Vlad: How can consumers make an informed decision as to which filter they wish to purchase, if they are not told exactly what information each product is filtering out?
Meeks et al may be guilty of flamboyant, emotionalistic prose, but I find the concept that the public is expected to buy various filters without knowing what they filter...frankly, ridiculous.
YOU and I may find it so, but you simply don't understand the mentality of those who will buy such filters without question. Vast numbers of people take the word of their minister, government, morality "guide", guru, or teacher without question. Why do you think Scientology has gone as far as it has? You don't think all those people who used the various blacklists circulated during the McCarthy era demanded original source documents, do you? I'm not comparing those who desire a "clean" computer environment in their homes with McCarthyites--I'm referring to the mental process of accepting certain kinds of "authority" without question--especially when it wraps itself in righteousness. We try to teach people (at least in the better schools) to question, and find out for themselves, but a lamentably small proportion do. David