From: ghio@netcom.com (Matthew Ghio)
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 00:29:48 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: The V-Chip glass is half full
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frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz) wrote:
> With some luck, we will be able to see on TV what we can now see in the
> movie theater, and the prudes will screen it out with the V-Chip the same
> way they now screen it out with the movie rating.  Everyone is (more or
> less) happy.

Maybe the courts will rule that if people put an X-rated header flag on
their web pages then it's legal because concerned parents can have SurfWatch
block it.  The result of that would probably be that a large percentage of
sites would mark their content X-rated just so they are off the hook
legally, whether or not they really have anything pornographic.  But I can
live with that.

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