From: abostick@netcom.com (Alan Bostick)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:03:33 +0800
To: WlkngOwl@UNiX.asb.com
Subject: Re: Spin Control Alert (LI Newsday, 2/12/96)
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In article <199602121313.IAA26828@UNiX.asb.com>,
"Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl@UNiX.asb.com> wrote:

> Know your enemies:
> 
> There's an op-ed in LI Newsday by Cathleen A. Cleaver ("directory of 
> legal studies at the Family Research Council..." in LI Newsday today.
> 
> Serious pro-CDA spin here. Justifies the bust of Amateur Action BBS, 
> ignoring that they were set up by the gov't, and then insists the CDA 
> only prohibits making porn accessible to kids. Calls anti-CDA folx 
> "free-speech zealots" and "friends of the porn industry", claims the 
> courts can determine merit on a per-case basis, and claims objections 
> to CDA are really from "arrogance and greed... Most Americans do not 
> have access to the Internet. The on-line elite would like to keep it 
> that way..."

No surprises here.  Except for the "on-line elite" shot in the dark, the
anti-sex censors have been talking this way for decades.

What's interesting is that your report of this spokesperson's tone makes
it sound *defensive* -- like a reaction to an onslaught rather than a
celebration of victory.

The battle for people's hearts and minds on this issue is far from over.

ObMetzgerQ:  What the hell does this have to do with cryptography?

ObMetzgerA:  Nothing! So there!  Hahahahahahha!

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