Filtering out Queers is OK

Rabid Wombat wombat at mcfeely.bsfs.org
Fri Jul 19 12:59:09 PDT 1996




> >Filtering is not "wrong," Cerridwyn, it is a rational response to garbage
> >being spewed constantly. I filter lots of items. I read "Scientific
> >American" and "The Economist" because they filter (or "censor," in the
> >sense some are objecting to here) nonsense about "queer rights" and
> >"peircing fashions," to name but a few things I have no interest in hearing
> >about.
> 

...  hmmm ...

You seem to be fighting a losing battle; the Wall Street Journal carried 
an article about piercing AND an article about using Kool Aid as hair dye 
this week. Who knows - the Economist may not be far behind (although the 
mag has gotten so thin, there wouldn't seem to be much room).

- r.w.






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