VirtualLarry
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| reply to nixen
Re: ?!
said by nixen  :Perhaps what he meant was, "there's far more of worth available via Usenet that overrides the small amount of child porn that is on it." If we're to start shutting off useful tools because a small fringe abuses it, we may as well shut down ALL communications channels, including the internet and postal mail systems. -tom That's a good point. I wonder why the various Christian coalitions haven't petitioned to completely shut down the USPS yet, like they are attempting with Usenet.
P.S. comp.std.c++.moderated (IIRC?) is one good reason not to axe usenet. comp.dcom.modems used to be another. Killing Usenet, one of the largest collected groups of human wisdom (and crap), is akin to wholesale book-burning and shutting down libraries, just because of one or two "bad books" that might get circulated.
The sad thing is, because of the expense, and the relative P/L of running a large Usenet service, there are likely quite a few smaller ISPs that might even go along with killing off that service, not because of polical or other reasons, but secretly because of cost reasons. Those ISPs should get negative PR to no end though, if they do kill their Usenet, regardless of reasoning. |
