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.