On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 08:38 AM, Bill Stewart wrote:
Both of which I have used at various times, though the "Mandatory Voluntary Self-Rating" .sig I tend to use only to make a point, or when the fancy strikes me. Included below. It's five or six years old now, hence the dated language about V-chips (which I believe are now mandated to be in all new televisions, though I never read about anyone using them...another silly Washington feelgood law). Updated for today it would have B.S. about Cyberspace Security, No Muslim Content, 9/11, etc.At 6:11 PM -0800 on 12/12/02, Lucky Green wrote: > Agreed. A few years ago, some would advocate that on the Internet, > no national laws apply. This was, of course, nonsense. Instead, > every single national, regional, and local law in effect today > anywhere in the world applies to anything you do to the extent that > said law can be enforced.Yup. At least until the internet boycott against Australia succeeds, we're closer to Tim May's signatures about ~~this posting void where prohibited by law, may offend local sensibilities, etc~~ than to "just speedbumps on the information superhighway".
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