Censorware empowerment meeting (was satire)

[Declan McCullagh]

Since I seem to have been misunderstood on at least two lists now, let me
forward this. --Declan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 12:45:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
To: Lizard <lizard at dnai.com>
Cc: Glenn Hauman <hauman at bb.com>, Seth Finkelstein <sethf at MIT.EDU>,
    jseiger at cdt.org, jberman at cdt.org, fight-censorship at vorlon.mit.edu
Subject: Re: White House "kinder, gentler"-CDA/censor empowerment  meeting

Lizard has it right. My post was meant to be satire.

I should have been more clear. In fact, a good friend of mine sent me this
message: 

> Declan, remember how I promised you I'd let you know as soon as I
> thought you'd been in Washington too long, so that you wouldn't turn
> into a beltway hack?
>
> This is the red flag. Get out.

Apologies to all.

In the future I will label all satiric posts as -L18, meaning those who
are under 18 will probably not get the joke. By labeling my posts in this
manner, I can ensure that they will be indexed up by search engines that
will in the future only index properly-labeled pages. I can also ensure
that users of Internet Explorer will remain able to read my scribbings,
since the next version of IE is going to ship with RSACi turned on as a
default. 

I will thus do my part to ensure a childsafe cyberspace, free from
inappropriate material and bad jokes of all kinds.

-Declan


On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Lizard wrote:

> Um...I think Declan was being humorously sarcastic. (What was that thread a
> few days ago about how irony doesn't work?) What's frightening is that his
> sarcasm comes perilously close -- some might say overlaps -- posts made in
> all apparent sincerity by others.