[plug] Internet oppression - babysitting

[Rob Hall]

Let's not get paranoid.   Nothing like that will happen.  There is
legislation now for objectionable content with other media.

Kerry Packer has an alliance with Microsoft.  What if he decided Linux was
objectionable, could he ban it from his media services?  No way!

Also, I am not talking about babysitting kids.  There are also _plenty_ of
adults who need to be protected from some stuff.  If not for their own
sakes, for the community's.


Regards,


Rob Hall

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of Bret Busby
> Sent: 04 May 1999 19:04
> To: plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Internet oppression - babysitting
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> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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> On 5/4/99, 6:10:23 PM, Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.smileys.net> wrote
> regarding Re: [plug] Internet oppression - babysitting:
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> > Gary Allpike wrote:
> > > Responsibility for protecting children from porn and bomb making
> recipies
> > > lies with the parents of these children. NOT with the government!
>
> > > I as an ISP do NOT want to babysit your children.
>
> > Well said, Gary!
>
> > Nor do I want to be jailed when said babysittees discover https: and
> are
> > in turn discovered using it (through a system I administer) to view
> > people indulging in disgusting and possibly painful acts.
>
> How about this, to consider; tellycomm was one of the first
> signatories. Microsoft has a relationship with tellycomm. Tellycom
> decides that things like PLUG mailing lists are objectionable. Goodbye
> mailing list. Then, Rob, where would you be able to vent your
> opinions?
>
> It is not just that Linux might be regarded as objectionable, by those
> in power, but, any expressed opinions, that are not consistent with
> the people in power, could end up with some heavily built people
> knocking at your door, in the middle of the night, to apply the law.
>
> Try considering that. And, remember the book, "1984".
>
> And, remember, "The price of freedom, is to be ever vigilant". I am
> not sure of the source, so cannot cite it.
>
> Bret Busby
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