From: jamesd@echeque.com
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From: jamesd@echeque.com
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 02:47:07 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: Re: A Cyberspace Independence Refutation
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James Donald writes:
>[in reply to strata]
>> Your other arguments casually dismiss the very real power that large numbers
>> of able people with good communications can exercise, have just exercised
>> very recently.
At 05:03 AM 2/16/96 -0500, lmccarth@cs.umass.edu wrote:
>Large numbers of able people with good communications very recently exercised
>their putative "very real power" against the passage of the CDA. They had no
>substantial impact AFAICS. (I intend no slur against the effort.) Could you
>name some examples, and add some qualifications that made the difference in
>those cases ?
1. President Clinton declared CDA unconstitutional and directed
the Justice department to refrain from enforcing it.
2. The normal course of events, when a new medium starts
competing against an old medium, is for the new medium to
be censored to an utterly ludicrous degree, analogous to
the law requiring a man with a red flag to walk in front
of horseless carriages, while the old medium has censorship
radically relaxed. In the normal course of events one would
expect a strict ban on pictures of women in clothes cut
below the neck or above the ankles, and a ban on any
unpleasant or disturbing subject. (For example the comics
code, and the TV rule that married couples had to have
separate beds)
Instead alt.pictures.binaries.erotica.children is still
going strong.
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