Re: Cyberporn on NPR today
But I expect it to focus on the technology questions, not the shrill "Save our children from the plague..." hysteria.
Only two callers through, first one should have hung up when he heard all of his arguments made (better) in the first half hour. Second caller asked whether the Pynchon mailing list he's on would have to censor itself if the Exon ammendment passed (seemed a decent point - succinct too). The rest of the time was the same old political debate with a few moments about Surfwatch. Equal time given to the opposition, who spoke about the horrors of unspeakable besiality, rape, etc. -- --- Concurrent VLSI Arch. Group 545 Technology Sq., Rm. 610 MIT AI Lab Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)-253-0972
On Fri, 21 Jul 95 15:27:22 EDT, lethin@ai.mit.edu (Rich Lethin) wrote:
Only two callers through, first one should have hung up when he heard all of his arguments made (better) in the first half hour. Second caller asked whether the Pynchon mailing list he's on would have to censor itself if the Exon ammendment passed (seemed a decent point - succinct too).
A few details from caller # 2 himself: ===================================================================== Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 17:58:49 -0500 (EST) From: "David L. Pelovitz" <PELOVTZD@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU> Subject: Re: Who's that? To: pynchon-l@sfu.ca
ok, who was on NPR's talk of the nation? good comments, man...you made the right point in the right way!
That was me. And thank you. For those not tuned in, the subject was obscenity/indecency on the internet, and the government's attempts to control it. I asked if we as list members discussing the works of a man who gets obscene and indecent on occassion might be subjected to criminal prosecution by citing the works to make a point here on the net. The man arguing for restrictions suggested that we better make sure this is an adults only board. The man arguing against the Exon amendment pointed out that we may not be able to discuss Pynchon on the net because children might read it, but anyone can buy it at the bookstore. He ended up going back to the Pynchon example to make his point after that. BTW - I am writing an article on the recent censorship movements on the e-zine enterzone. I'll send the URL and publication dates when I have them. David Pelovitz - PELOVTZD@Afcluster.nyu.edu ================================================================== Alan Westrope <awestrop@nyx10.cs.du.edu> __________/|-, <adwestro@ouray.cudenver.edu> (_) \|-' 2.6.2 public key: finger / servers PGP 0xB8359639: D6 89 74 03 77 C8 2D 43 7C CA 6D 57 29 25 69 23
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