Re: Bozofilters

[David Burt <dburt@AFO.NET>]

On Thursday, June 03, 1999 4:41 PM, Chris Savage [SMTP:csavage@CRBLAW.COM]
wrote:
> OK, state of, if not "the play," at least my evolving knowledge:
>
> 1.  Certain 1A types took the position that a PR campaign based on
> "Censorware is our savior" would take the wind from the sails of censorship
> opponents and actively undertook same.
>
> 2.  Certain other 1A types disagreed, thinking that promoting censorware --
> even when used, e.g., by parents with the best of intentions -- will lead to
> pernicious results over and above the wind-depriving benefits, if any,
> indicated above, and those wind-depriving benefits were thought to be
> probably illusory anyway.
>
> 3.  A major bodily-fluids contest ensued amongst groups (1) and (2).
>
> 4.  Group (1) won.
>
> 5.  Group (2) remains steamed about proposition 4, on all points from the
> underlying basic position to the tactics used in (3) to the character,
> reliability, and general goodness/badness of those in Group (1).  And at
> least some in Group (1) feel the same way.
>
> Now, not (yet) getting into the question of what the current-day fallout in
> the public policy arena is from the various groups' actions in the past,
> what, if anything, about 1-5 above is wrong?
>
> Chris S.

You forgot (6)

(6) Pro-censorship activists are, and continue to be, highly amused by (1)-(5)
;->