1997-07-16 - Re: The Big Sellout

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Declan McCullagh <cypherpunks@toad.com
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Raw Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 14:44:58 +0800

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 14:44:58 +0800
To: Declan McCullagh <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: The Big Sellout
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At 01:07 AM 7/16/97 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>For instance, Netscape Communications is expected to announce it will
>back a software standard that allows people, using a Web browser,
>either to block or select certain Web sites based on their electronic
>labels, said industry and government sources, speaking on condition of
>anonymity.

Should such a system ever see widespread use, which I doubt, I only be a
matter of days before somebody puts up pages featuring gratuitous violence,
hard-core pornography, "how to kill your parents using common household
chemicals", and pages of similar nature. At which point we will quickly
discover just how "voluntary" this "voluntary standard" is.

Sure the CDA was struck down by the Supreme Court. Would a law prohibiting
"mislabeling" of websites be struck down as well? I doubt it.



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• 1997-07-16 (Wed, 16 Jul 1997 13:25:20 +0800) - The Big Sellout - Declan McCullagh <declan@vorlon.mit.edu>
  • 1997-07-16 (Wed, 16 Jul 1997 14:44:58 +0800) - Re: The Big Sellout - Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
    • 1997-07-16 (Wed, 16 Jul 1997 14:58:39 +0800) - Re: The Big Sellout - Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
      • 1997-07-17 (Thu, 17 Jul 1997 09:07:19 +0800) - Re: The Big Sellout - Brian Lane <nexus@eskimo.com>
        • 1997-07-17 (Thu, 17 Jul 1997 09:21:07 +0800) - Re: The Big Sellout - “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@amaranth.com>
        • 1997-07-17 (Thu, 17 Jul 1997 17:08:34 +0800) - Re: The Big Sellout - “Peter D. Junger” <junger@upaya.multiverse.com>
          • 1997-07-17 (Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:47:12 +0800) - Re: The Big Sellout - dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
            • 1997-07-17 (Fri, 18 Jul 1997 06:54:21 +0800) - Re: The Big Sellout - ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
      • 1997-07-17 (Fri, 18 Jul 1997 03:55:18 +0800) - Re: The Big Sellout - Doug Peterson <fnorky@geocities.com>
    • 1997-07-16 (Thu, 17 Jul 1997 07:41:08 +0800) - Re: The Big Sellout - Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>