[83263] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Big Sellout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Peterson)
Thu Jul 17 16:39:36 1997
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 13:21:41 -0600
From: Doug Peterson <fnorky@geocities.com>
To: Brian Lane <nexus@eskimo.com>
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Doug Peterson <fnorky@geocities.com>
Brian Lane wrote:
>
> Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >
> > I spoke to Netscape earlier today. The company previously had announced it
> > would support PICS in a future version of Navigator. Now it's pledging to
> > support PICS in the *next* version.
> >
> > -Declan
>
> I don't care if Netscape supports PICS or not, as long as I still have the
> freedom to turn that option off (and that it is preferrably not enabled by
> default, or indicates in an OBVIOUS way that it is active).
Even better, lets support web browsers that do not support PICS or any
other
rateing system.
> This whole thing is a load of shit though. The government is professing
> to have control over thousands of private computers and networks. No one
> has to put their kids on the net (IMHO the damn thing is a large waste of
> time, they should be reading books or building things instead), so it must
> be the parents decision to give them access -- It is therefore the parents
> responsibility to monitor their kids activities, not the governments and not
> everyone elses.
Agreed. I would extend that to say that it is the parents responsiblity
to
teach their kids to be able to handle the unknown in a responsible way.
-Doug
