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1997-07-17 - Re: The Censorware Summit: A Preview, from The Netly News

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <19970717024638.59899@bywater.songbird.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-07-17 10:03:09 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:03:09 +0800

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:03:09 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: The Censorware Summit: A Preview, from The Netly News
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On Wed, Jul 16, 1997 at 11:40:33PM -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
> What does misrate mean.  My approach would be to rate everything of mine as
> max-bad.  Is that misrating because some of what I say is suitable for
> children?  It certainly would not help the people who are using the ratings
> to find porn.

Speaking of misrating:

Of course, it would be relatively easy to set up a proxy server that
automatically labeled every page it encountered as "suitable for
children".  In fact, a smart 12-year old could put up such a proxy,
and provide uncensored views to all his friends.

Interesting legal complications, too.

-- 
Kent Crispin				"No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com			the thief he kindly spoke...
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http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html

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