From: Sean Roach <roach_s@alph.swosu.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:08:39 -0800 (PST)
To: Declan McCullagh <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Exon Countdown Clock and farewell messages
Message-ID: <199611132008.MAA04178@toad.com>
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At 09:59 AM 11/8/96 -0800, Michael Page wrote and Rich Graves forwarded:

>> ...
>> >We would attempt to send it via a Email, but the respected Senator does not
>> >have Email. (The Irony).
>> ...

To Which, on Mon, 11 Nov 1996, I wrote:

>> There is no irony here, Mr. Exon tried to control the internet for the very
>> reason that he didn't understand it and one of his granddaughters did.
>> Perhaps if he did understand the internet then he wouldn't be a threat.
>> Remember, people fear that which they don't understand.
 
To which, at 07:57 PM 11/12/96 -0800, Declan McCullagh wrote:

>I disagree. I think people understand the printing press and still want 
>to control it. Morality police are morality police, no matter what the 
>medium or how well they understand it.

A valid point, and Exon may have had designs of media control the whole
time.  The methods he used and the arguments he stated, however, suggested
to me, that he was someone who did not comprehend the technology.  Those who
he was able to sway with the dossier of .GIF's certainly were ignorant, many
of them were turned by that one display of images.