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Re: Cowards at Amazon.com

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reese)
Tue Aug 24 09:30:17 1999

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:57:27 -1000
To: Petro <petro@suba.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Reese <reeza@flex.com>
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Reply-To: Reese <reeza@flex.com>

At 09:54 PM 23-08-99 -0700, Petro wrote:
>
>>
>>Any time you see grade school aged children doing bump & grind movements in
>>paid advertising, it isn't Mary Poppins and the rest of the rated G set.
>
>	While it is probably in poor taste, to call it kiddie port is 
>like Eric calling Dr. Laura & Crew Sex Nazis--intellectually 
>dishonest to say the least.

I'll go for intellectually lazy, not sure about dishonest.

>	These people are genuinely concerned for children (well, most 
>of them), they just go too far.

Agreed.  I just dislike the wording of kiddie pr0n laws, their
determination of what constitutes kiddie pr0n, and the plethora of paid
advertising that meets this definition (or comes oh so close).

Reese


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