It seems to me that a Congress that one minute was passing the Decency in Telecommunications Act and the next was publishing detailed accounts of the President's illicit affair with an aide is just the body to tell us how to protect our children.
Let us consider what censorship did for the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. How can it be evil for them and good for us?
I have re-read your post several times looking for a reference to privacy. It only appears in the subject line. Hmm.
I would like to respond to your suggestion that " 99% of casual internet users I know treat it like a "virtual watercooler". They express their opinions without any particular reservations, just as they would around an office watercooler."
One is accountable for opinions expressed around an office watercooler. Ask Clarence Thomas.
Further, I take umbrage with your statement that "The difference is, this is archived forever for all to see." The only reason this is a pertinent difference is if you wish to lie. Preserving the notion of plausible deniability by deleting the past is Orwellian.
Airstrip One is at war with Eastasia. Airstrip One has always been at war with Eastasia.
George Orwell only re-titled his novel "1984" because he could not get it published as "1948", which was his original intention. It was not intended as a prediction.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH - Eric Blair (aka George Orwell) from 1984
actually, "can't get no worse", but then Stokely Carmichael's famous "mind over matter" remark, "if you don't mind, it don't matter", has been PC'd to "if you don't mind, it doesn't matter" so why quibble.
He who controls the past controls the present - Eric Blair (aka George Orwell)
Some years ago, I had a brief acquaintance with a man named Walter Taylor. His family founded the Taylor Wine Company in Hammondsport New York, which was purchased by Pepsi-Cola. They manipulated the law, permitting them to import Algerian wine by the railroad car, and mix it with the legal minimum of New York state grapes and called the resulting garbage "Taylor" New York State wine. Walter founded the Bully Hill Vineyards, which is a small estate bottled wine in Hammondsport. Although he never attempted to use his name in conjunction with the product, Pepsi sued to prevent him using his name anywhere on the bottle. They won; the also lost. Walter's next wine was called "Goat White Wine" and featured an original woodcut of his on the lable of a goat sticking out his tongue. The label read, "they can take my heritage they can take my name but they cant get my goat!" and was signed "Mr. X, the Secret Proprietor of Bully Hill Vineyards." Such is reality.
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It seems to me that a Congress that one minute was passing the Decency in Telecommunications Act and the next was publishing detailed accounts of the President's illicit affair with an aide is just the body to tell us how to protect our children.
Let us consider what censorship did for the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. How can it be evil for them and good for us?
I have re-read your post several times looking for a reference to privacy. It only appears in the subject line. Hmm.
I would like to respond to your suggestion that " 99% of casual internet users I know treat it like a "virtual watercooler". They express their opinions without any particular reservations, just as they would around an office watercooler."
One is accountable for opinions expressed around an office watercooler. Ask Clarence Thomas.
Further, I take umbrage with your statement that "The difference is, this is archived forever for all to see." The only reason this is a pertinent difference is if you wish to lie. Preserving the notion of plausible deniability by deleting the past is Orwellian.
Airstrip One is at war with Eastasia. Airstrip One has always been at war with Eastasia.
George Orwell only re-titled his novel "1984" because he could not get it published as "1948", which was his original intention. It was not intended as a prediction.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH - Eric Blair (aka George Orwell) from 1984
actually, "can't get no worse", but then Stokely Carmichael's famous "mind over matter" remark, "if you don't mind, it don't matter", has been PC'd to "if you don't mind, it doesn't matter" so why quibble.
He who controls the past controls the present - Eric Blair (aka George Orwell)
I wholeheartedly agree! Sorry for the brain cramp.
Thank you. Saved me the time.
Does not our own /. convention suggest that an unwillingness to own up to our words is cowardice?
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
Some years ago, I had a brief acquaintance with a man named Walter Taylor. His family founded the Taylor Wine Company in Hammondsport New York, which was purchased by Pepsi-Cola. They manipulated the law, permitting them to import Algerian wine by the railroad car, and mix it with the legal minimum of New York state grapes and called the resulting garbage "Taylor" New York State wine. Walter founded the Bully Hill Vineyards, which is a small estate bottled wine in Hammondsport. Although he never attempted to use his name in conjunction with the product, Pepsi sued to prevent him using his name anywhere on the bottle. They won; the also lost. Walter's next wine was called "Goat White Wine" and featured an original woodcut of his on the lable of a goat sticking out his tongue. The label read, "they can take my heritage they can take my name but they cant get my goat!" and was signed "Mr. X, the Secret Proprietor of Bully Hill Vineyards." Such is reality.