[6961] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTTP Futures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker)
Thu Dec 8 13:11:07 1994
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1994 18:39:29 +0100
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From: hallam@dxal18.cern.ch (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker)
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In article <981F@cernvm.cern.ch> S.write:
|>Despite my mail address, can I just say that I don't plan to add any
|>censorship facilities ot HTTP-NG.
But I do. I know that they will be completely unenfoceable but they will provide
protection from a large number of problems:
1) The Manufactured Moral indignation brigade (Newt Gingrich & Co.).
Preemption is better than cure.
2) Won't be enforcable
3) Would be enforcable in a school type situation to stop classes of 5 year
olds seeing wide-open-with-handcuffs.jpeg
4) Would protect people who run sites in certain situations
5) Would be usefull to be able to pre-select images to make sure that none
fell bellow certain standards. IE don't want to have to bother with
tame & lame gifs of only semi-naked people and concentrate only
on the ones of nubile young things being strapped to a UNIX box
combined with large quantities of chockholate sauce.
IE it would be used for the same purpose as the X-Rated cinema - the directors
would go all out to get the strongest ratings possible.
This is all forseen in J.S. Mill BTW
--
Phillip M. Hallam-Baker
Not Speaking for anyone else.
