[51700] in Cypherpunks
Re: SurfWatch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Fri Mar 8 18:17:18 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 14:54:29 -0800
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May), cypherpunks@toad.com
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
At 3:27 PM 3/8/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
>(By the way, adult magazines voluntary label themselves as "adult": my
>understanding from several comments by lawyers and adult industry
>spokesmen, is that they are under no obligation to "voluntarily label"
>their stuff. And some libraries have an _explicit_ policy that says any
>card-holder, of any age, may check out or look at _any_ item the library
>carries.)
IMHO Adult magazines label themselves "adult" as a form of advertising. In
the same way, a site with a sufficiently hard core self-rating may attract
customers specifically because of the rating.
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