Nice thought, but... well... I wish the congresscritters thought that way... Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu> (410) 494-3253 Visit my home page at http://www.goucher.edu/~jlasser/ You have a friend at the NSA: Big Brother is watching. Finger for PGP key. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 22:49:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Tildy Bayar <tildy@ella.mills.edu> To: bdsm-list@blob.best.net Subject: community standards in cyberspace (fwd)

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DEVIANCE -- COMPARED TO WHAT? Peter Huber, author of "Orwell's Revenge" and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, points out that "community standards" are no longer definable in cyberspace. "`Deviance' loses its meaning, when communities of the like-minded are formed entirely by consent. Freedom of association is so complete in cyberspace that traditional limits on freedom of speech become almost impossible to justify constitutionally." (Forbes 7/31/95 p.110)