Protect the innocent

In message <Pin...@greed.pangea.ca>,
Tyrel Burton <su...@pangea.ca> writes
>When you walk into a bookstore, what's the first thing you see? Offensive
>material? Is it in your face? Are the sales people trying to sell it to
>you as soon as you walk in the door? Are you forced to read it? Are you
>foreced to see it?

 When you log onto the Internet, does a screen appear with close ups
 of people's gentials asking what you want to read next?  Of course not.
>
>A safe environment doesn't mean it has to be safe for all people -
>SOmething offensive to me might not be offensive to you. Just like in a
>bookstore, the Internet can be the same -- sure there is bad stuff, but it
>is hidden, somewhat out of sight and well maintained. Today on the 'net,
>there seems to be a free-for-all kind of attitude going on. 

 Free for all in its right place.  Someone who writes about sex on
 newsgroups about cats is a nuissance and will be shooed off, yes....
 no more or less than if they write about motorbikes, dolphins,
 or the lives of the saints.  If they right about sex in sex newsgroups
 and you don't want to read it then don't; if other adults want to read
 it then mind your own business; if you don't want your children to 
 read it then either you or other adults acting for you supervise
 how they use the computer.....just as they would be supervised for 
 what films they can walk in and watch.  Or I **assume** you supervise
 what they are allowed to watch on your video recorder.


>I'm from
>Canada -- but that doesn't mean I can start posting child porn on the net,
>hate material, etc. Just because it's the Internet doesn't mean we have to
>run wild and free. Free means what? Freedom of speech -- saying something
>without persecution. Some people's idea of freedom of speech is taking
>away someone's "right" or privilige to use the Internet. What use is
>freedom of speech if people can't read it? What use is it? 
>
>What will the world be like without rule -- basically it comes down to
>that. If there were no rules in the world, what would happen. 

 People would mind their own fucking business & be a lot better for it.

>Iraq, for
>instance, isn't obeying UN agreements -- looks what's happening now --
>Iraq citizens are gearing up with gas masks and war gear. 
>Well, there has to be some basic "regulation" on the Internet. NOT
>censorship, but no chaos. 

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