From:	ANGLISS BRIAN EDWARD <angliss@****.colorado.edu>
Subject:	Re: Why U.S. Censorship effect those outside the country...
Date:	Tue, 12 Dec 1995 12:22:24 -0700 (MST)

HOLDIT!!!!! TIME-OUT ALREADY!!!!

While I was personally relieved to get the mailing that Rob Hayden sent,
and forwarded it to many of my friends myself, this is NOT a forum for
political discussions.

Putting my politics aside, I have only a few comments. If this
legislation is passed, those of us US citizens will either have to give
up the list or make our posts banal(I'd rather leave than do that, but
that's me). Even if you move the site out of the US, it will affect the
list even if it doesn't affect the country where it moves to. And being
someone who participates in more than one "disagreeable" forum, be they
mailservers or usenet groups, this legislation would wipe my Internet
access out, or drive me underground, or turn me into a criminal. None of
those sounds particularly appealing.

I'm sure that Rob Hayden has more(and more accurate as well) stats than I
have, but I seem to remember that there's something like 100 million
INternet users worldwide, half of which are in the US if I remember
correctly. Having half(I'll be more conservative and say a third) or
even a third of the Internet dumbed down because of the internal politics
of a single country WILL affect the entire thing, perhaps in ways we
can't even predict.

Now, as I see these as facts, not opinion, they aren't political to me.
If you disagree, please, email me privately!

But the politics isn't necessary, dammit. My personal politics clash
damn near violently with Tom's(didn't know that, did you Tom?), but I
don't scream about it here. It's not appropriate, unless its tied in
with the SR world we play in, IM(NECTDAB)HO.

Brian