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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Name Withheld by Request)
Thu Jul 17 13:58:35 1997
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:45:10 +0200 (MET DST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: nobody@replay.com (Name Withheld by Request)
Reply-To: nobody@replay.com (Name Withheld by Request)
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997 frissell@panix.com wrote:
> What ever happened to "de minimus non curat lex." The social damage from a
> misrated website is too trivial to be believed. Punishing it is like
> executing you for farting.
In some cases that may not be a bad idea :). But getting back to the
original point, if I'm going to be subject to jail for mislabeling my
pages (and how do you tell, given that some systems use a numeric rating?
count the nipples and add the size of any erections?) then that would
seem to be a good reason to move my Web site out of America.
Idependent rating systems are a good thing, and we've talked about them
here many times in the past (e.g. 'repuation markets'). A mandatory
requirement for web authors to rate their own pages is a hideous idea
which will simply move more of the Web overseas, helping to destroy the US
economy.
WebMonger
