At 11:15 PM 4/13/96 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:

Quite. It's interesting in that regard that, as well as differentiating between homosexual and heterosexual content, the W3C PICS scheme includes a filtration scheme for attacks on religions. One wonders if they considered that Scientology is currently (probably unjustifiedly) considered a religion?

The more the irrational and indefensible the faith, the more that the proponents of that faith view any sort of debunking attempt as "an attack". (It is not just Scientologists that suffer from this mentality. I have seen those of the more fanatical Christian varieties make the same claim.) What these schemes will do is shield children from anything resembling a "controversial" discussion. (I expect Cypherpunks to be labeled as "could cause criminal behaviour" or some such malarky by the more protective and clueless. (It may be true, but why warn them upfront? ]:> )) You will see the forces of "good" try and protect the little kidlets from anything that might get them to think for themselves. It is already happening in some sectors of public thought, I expect the net to become its next victim. Soon everything will be "Sanitized for your Protection". --- Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon