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- From: peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis)
- Subject: Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.043749.2593@cujo.curtin.edu.au>
- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Dec22.085300.1@mrluv2.dsto.oz.au> <1hk002INNa1j@zikzak.apana.org.au> <11521@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:37:49 GMT
- Lines: 50
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- anthony@cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee) writes:
-
- [Please excuse any typo's this keyboard is playing up]
-
- >I don't understand why whenever the word "pornographic" comes up
- >everyone associates it with censorship and rights. If you want
-
- Because censorship is censorship, no matter who perpetrates it,
- no matter what it is you choose to censor. It is far more clear
- cut than the distinction between what is erotic and what is
- pornogaphic.
-
- >pictures of nearly naked females. Now can you tell me honestly
- >that if you look at these pictures, you don't get turned on
-
- Surely that's the idea?
-
- >(unless of course you are gay :-) ?
-
- There are lots of male pictures there as well. Have you ever even
- looked at this nwsgroup?
-
- >Wouldn't it be better just to forgo something like pornography
- >then to know that it could lead to acts of violence against
- >females and even childern ? Ok, the possiblity may be as low as
- >0.0001% but is cutting out pornography on the net such a great
- >lost ?
-
- Not to you obviously, you lose nothing, so of course this seems
- like a reasonable aproach to you. What about people who don't
- or can't drive demanding that cars be banned because they could be
- killed by them? Should we ban all drugs because some people
- commit suicide with them? All sports because people get hurt?
- Boxing because people get brain damage? Force people to wear helmets
- because they could get hurt riding? Ban cigarette advertising because
- people get cancer?
-
- Where do you draw the line - and who gets to choose where the line gets
- drawn?
-
- Violence against women is a horrible thing, it sickens and appals me.
- It infuriates me that even in Perth people (esp women) are afraid to
- walk the streets. But don't blame this on the net, the violence was
- there before the net was, it was there before tv, before magazines,
- before newspapers.
- Peter.
-
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