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1997-07-31 - Re: Third party rating services NOT self-rating (was Re: Yet another

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1997-07-31 12:54:20 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:54:20 +0800

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:54:20 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Third party rating services NOT self-rating (was Re: Yet another
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Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> writes:

> James Love <love@cptech.org> writes:
> > Paul Bradley wrote:
> > > > [Pissing, Fisting and beastiality!]
> > > >
> > > > 55%   http://adult.mdc.ca/free/xratedp.html     (Size 4.5K)
> > >
> > > We can clearly come to no agreement here as I cannot see any material
> > > listed above which would be harmful in any way to a viewer, child or
> > > not.
> >
> >    Paul. Do you *have* any children?  Jamie
>
> I have children.  My views are generally liberal.  I could probably
> come up with a few things I think would not be appropriate
> viewing/reading at this stage (4 year old?)
>
> However, and this appears to be a point being missed here, it is
> pretty much irrelevant what I think should be appropriate for my
> children, because the person you are proposing to rate the site is the
> site's author.  It is inevitable that the site's author will have
> different views about what is suitable for children than any
> particular parent.  Pick 10 people, you'll have 10 different sets of
> what is suitable.

I have 2 kids.  I think it's highly unethical to lie to kids about the
existance of tooth fairies/gods/santa clauses.
...
> Now where does the need for government come into this picture?

Nowhere.

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