From: declan@well.com (Declan McCullagh)
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 02:37:19 +0800
To: frogfarm@yakko.cs.wmich.edu
Subject: Re: Surf-filter lists
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>Vlad: How can consumers make an informed decision as to which filter
>they wish to purchase, if they are not told exactly what information
>each product is filtering out?
>
>Meeks et al may be guilty of flamboyant, emotionalistic prose, but I
>find the concept that the public is expected to buy various filters
>without knowing what they filter...frankly, ridiculous.


Flamboyant prose? Moi? Never!

More to the point, as I wrote at the end of the original CWD, it's a
bait-and-switch maneuver. Go after porn, they say, but the censor political
information.

And you don't know about it.

-Declan