| From: | Helge Diernaes <ecocide@***.econ.cbs.dk> |
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| Subject: | Why U.S. Censorship is slightly funny. |
| Date: | Fri, 15 Dec 1995 21:42:31 +0100 (MET) |
discussion nessesary. Unless provoked, I shall send no more concerning
this issue.
On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Gurth wrote:
> I agree with David, I doubt the American government could come to get me
> or my provider if I say something forbidden by US law, and it's highly
> unlikely a similar law will be made here in the Netherlands. Come watch
> tv here sometime and compare it that in the good ol' US...
>
> Still it would suck bad if such a law would come true, even on the other
> side of the ocean :(
Quite. But who do the US Gov think it is? Are to societal
dissolution so bad in God's own country, that the US gov deem their
citizens incapable of thought and critical opinions?
Is this a way of raising US citizens to responsible adults, by denying
them the tests of life? If a human is raised in a sterile environment, it
will likely succumb to the first cold it catches :)
Whoah, I love preaching, only a shame nobody gives a damn.
Apart from that, I agree with a recent poster who thought that an
implementation of this law would move most internet services outside the
US. While I am not sure that the US would have fewer users or less
equipment that now, most innovation would take place extra-US.
Most inventors don't thrive with rules and barriers for creativity. At least
that's my opinion.
Really, Europe certainly have its quirks, but that America writes BAD FOR
HEALTH warnings on its low-vol beer and sells automatic weapons to anyone
with a drivers license (and a clear record?), thats a quite good one too :)
But then, what would the world be without all our paradoxes?
--
Silhouette
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"And then he had a visitor, a visitor unannounced, one who walked in through
the elaborate maze of Smith's security as though it didn't exist. A small man,
Japanese, enormously polite, who bore all the marks of a vatgrown ninja
assassin.
Smith sat very still, staring into the calm brown eyes of death across a
polished table of Vietnamese rosewood. Gently, almost apologetically,
the cloned killer explained that it was his duty to find and return a
certain artwork, a mechanism of great beauty, which had been taken from
the house of his master. It had come to his attention, the ninja said,
that Smith might know of the whereabouts of this object."
- The Finns story, Neuromancer.
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Helge Diernaes, ecocide@***.econ.cbs.dk
