[83223] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Censorware Summit: A Preview, from The Netly News
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Jul 17 04:02:58 1997
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970716111552.13849C-100000@well.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 23:40:33 -0700
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 11:16 AM -0700 7/16/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>As for Lucky's point #2 -- Yes, I've read drafts of bills that would make
>it a Federal crime to misrate. --Declan
>
>On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
>> 2) If the tags are not signed by a CA.
>> What is someone to prevent from labeling the NAMBLA monthly site,
>> "government authorized news site, suitable for all ages"? Just as the
>> various GAK proposals do not make sense unless GAK is mandatory, online
>> rating systems do not make sense unless "misslabeling" sites will become a
>> felony.
What does misrate mean. My approach would be to rate everything of mine as
max-bad. Is that misrating because some of what I say is suitable for
children? It certainly would not help the people who are using the ratings
to find porn.
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