From: attila <attila@hun.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:37:00 -0700 (PDT)
To: Declan McCullagh <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: FC: Forget Internet restrictions -- how about banning TV?
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On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Declan McCullagh forwarded from TIME:

>...
>   The revolution will not be televised -- at least not in Afghanistan.
>   The Taliban government today banned TV, and gave Afghans 15 days to
>   get rid of all sets and VCRs. After that, if the organization's
>   enforcers find one in your house, it will be destroyed and you will be
>   punished.
>...

    sounds good to me; I've raised 5 children who know how to _read_.

    I've never owned a television, never saw the need to bring cancer
    into the home. TV could have been one of the greatest educational
    tools in the existence of mankind --and, what is it? nothing more
    than bread and circus for the mass, a tool for social reoganization 
    and the destruction of the family.

    babysitter?  momma's little helper? not really; a creator of a
    vast unthinking social wasteland --which, of course, fits the
    policy goals of Hillay's Global Village where everybody is just
    another butterscotch pudding to her recipe.

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