Donna Rice-Hughes from Enough is Enough says: "It discusses
primary areas of our concern: letting the court know the
Sir Robin of Locksley wrote: three problems on
the Internet. Adult pornography, indecency, and child porn as well.
Now it's porn, tomorrow it's you saying what you beleive (that might also be the truth...) If one is offended by something, don't look! How come Catholicism doesn't get banned and outlawed? Hell, it offends me...
I'm afraid that you are in the minority in your beliefs, at least here on the CypherPunks list. Most CypherPunks believe that we need a higher authority to protect us from things that we don't want to see. Most CypherPunks see that Beneviolent Moderation is a good thing, as was made plain from the discussions on the list in this regard, so I assume that they would not be so hypocritical as to oppose the attempts of others to bring the blessing of Beneviolent Moderation to everyone on the InterNet. I expect the majority of CypherPunks will be more than willing to throw their support behind efforts to remove pornography from the whole InterNet, just as they were eager to remove posts containing 'bad words' from this list. Of course, you must realize that I don't pretend to speak for all CypherPunks subscribers--only for the upright, decent ones, who, like Donna Rice-Hughes, want to live in a safe, filtered world, free from the intrusion of wrong-thinkers. Some of the CypherPunk subscribers seem to favor taking personal responsibility for what they chose to read or not read, but they are just a small, troublesome minority on the list. Donna Rice-Hughes and her crowd are merely late-comers on the moderation scene, trying to emulate the 'good' CypherPunks who finally stood up and said, "Enough is enough." Toto