On 2/12/2014 6:56 AM, js wrote:
one thing you have not mentioned are any back doors put in proprietary operating systems by the orders of the US government. while it may not be relevant to many, it is relevant to some people [and i'm talking about whistle blowers or human rights activists instead of child porn merchants].
No offense, but I don't feel one is different from another. As soon as we start to say that /some/ speech is "good" and /some/ speech is not, we lose.
After all, a photograph of a naked child lying dead in a ditch at My Lai could be interpreted as "child porn" - and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of partially naked children could be (and was) interpreted as having redeeming social merit.
Porn, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, and the question is if we, as a society, should allow our government to examine what people /might/ say, before they say it.
My $0.02. YMMV. Bill -- Bill Horne William Warren Consulting http://www.william-warren.com/ 339-364-8487 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
