[9026] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet

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Re: sleaze

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Tully)
Tue Dec 14 22:05:59 1993

From: tully@cscns.com (Ed Tully)
To: postman@lists.psi.com (Dick St.Peters)
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 93 20:02:31 MST
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9312150121.AA03303@spare-parts.crd.Ge.Com>; from "Dick St.Peters" at Dec 14, 93 8:21 pm

Since when does the end justify the means? It doesn't have to be this way,
guys and gals! It is hurting the progress of the net to have it so easily
available; it is hurting the economy of the net! Get out where the rubber
meets the road, instead of sitting in an office or lab and speaking with a
golden tongue from on high! Platitudes are getting old.  


> 
> 
> > >No more difficult than keeping Playboy out of the hands of twelve year olds
> > 
> > or guns?
> 
> or drugs?
> 
> C'mon now folks, who among us was not viewing every bit of this sleaze
> we could get out hands on at "that age"?  I found it in the photography
> magazines, and when I think back on it I'm sure that was the only
> reason the corner store stocked them.  There was nobody around who was
> into photography.
> 
> If this stuff keeps the kids at their desks away from guns and drugs ...
> 
> --
> Dick St.Peters
> GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY   stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
> 
> 


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Community News Service
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