Re: Just say NYET to kneejerking
I must admit that I'm disappointed. I figured that I would take some hits, but for people to only scan a post before reaching for the lighter... Don't be such a condescending shit. We read your post clearly enough, thank you very much. Typical control-freak crap. If you want your little xtian kids to be namby-pamby'd on the net, start up your own business and offer them restricted access yourself, but don't try to tell the rest of us how to run our systems. It's the responsibility of the parents to restrict the children's access, not the net. I've no more against a Falwell-style BBS than I have against their loony TV channels, just don't force me to have to use one. By all means encourage proper upstanding xtian parents to fund a suitable system for their own children to use, but lay off the regulation bullshit. That was lies disaster for free speech everywhere. G PS There was a good article on the US xtian right-wing's attempts to infiltrate Republican politics in the Guardian, Mon July 25. They have a good quotation from Ralph Reed, the exec director of the Christian Coalition: "I want to be invisible, " (talking about their political manoeuvering), "I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know it's over until election night." Friends like you, and Schafly, we can do without, thank you Nathan.
Graham Toal says:
I must admit that I'm disappointed. I figured that I would take some hits, but for people to only scan a post before reaching for the lighter...
Don't be such a condescending shit. We read your post clearly enough, thank you very much. Typical control-freak crap. If you want your little xtian kids to be namby-pamby'd on the net,
I believe Graham is being rather rude. There is no excuse for being impolite. You can express your views without vitriol -- you may indeed be able to get along with people with views you do not share, and find that you are better off for it. People who don't want their children exposed to the net have a concern that is likely shared by a large number of people. Personally, I would not try to protect my (as yet theoretical) children from the net (at least not any but the smallest) because I feel that it is better to explain the world to them and help them to develop defenses against its dangers -- you can't always be there to defend them. However, I do not wish to impose my child rearing opinions on others -- and neither do I wish to have any restrictions posed on my use of the net whatsoever, including bureaucratic registrations. If you wish to keep your children from seeing everything that is out there, I would suggest that you simply develop a service to restrict what they can view to what you have vetted, or keep them using services like Prodigy which are censored. Don't impose your views on the rest of us, no matter how good the intent. Perry
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