[46401] in Cypherpunks
Re:US calls for measures against Internet porn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.co)
Wed Jan 3 18:07:05 1996
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 14:47:35 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com
In-Reply-To: <9601032009.AA01109@argosy.MasPar.COM>
My original post, "US calls for measures against Internet porn" was a
satire. The entire point was that, by changing a few words in the
"China calls for measures against Internet porn" story, a statement by
a totalitarian communist regime could be made to look like official US
policy. Obviously, the project was a success, as people are taking it
seriously in spite of the fact that it had telltale clues, and that
the original source was revealed.
The exact changes were:
BEIJING -> WASHINGTON DC
China -> The US
State Council -> Clinton administration's State Council
Communist Party -> Republican Party
Xinhua news agency -> the Associated Press
personal computers in China -> modems in the US
That's it. None of the actual words quoted from the statement were
changed. Frightening, isn't it?
