From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 15:51:42 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: PICS is not censorship
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19961208154000.006adf40@netcom14.netcom.com>
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At 09:15 PM 12/7/96 -0800, Thaddeus J. Beier wrote:
>I don't think that PICS will be mandated any more than those two standards
>are mandated, perhaps I'm naive, but I think that the social conventions
>will work in this case.

Let's put the question if something like PICS will be mandated aside for
the moment. Do you agree that sites that deliberately mislabel their
content, will eventually face legal action? If so, then PICS should not be
considered truly voluntary.



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