[118409] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Women without veils"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Stafford)
Sun Sep 26 19:21:11 1999
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 19:02:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan Stafford <jestaff2@unity.ncsu.edu>
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
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On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Tim May wrote:
> Oh, and what if the fakes are generated or posted from Denmark or France,
> where the age of consent is quite a bit lower than in the U.S.? Is not the
> Usenet a global forum, uncentered in any particular country?
>
> In recent weeks I saw a very clever example posted here. "Women without
> veils." It makes the obvious point, with a nice twist, that what is legal
> in America may well be illegal in Islamic countries. Not a new point, but a
> well-made one.
>
> So it is with "pedophilia."
Someone else said something like this, and my apologies to not only
butchering it, but failing to remember who the author was, but:
Rather than making your countries particular laws unenforcable, the
internet makes eveything illegal somewhere, all the time.
Jonathan
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