Re: restricting sex oriented material

From: Martin Gleeson <gleeson@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 16:15:19 +1000

On 4/6/97, Paul Rolfe wrote:
>At 01:36 PM 4/06/97 +0800, you wrote:
>>On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Umar Goldeli wrote:
>>>> Give up guys. We aren't the protectors of public morality.
>>>
>>>err... I don't think anyone CARES about public morality... my guess would
>>>be that they are trying to conserve bandwidth.. for I can tell you that
>>>99% of most ISP's (and any other "public access" hosts) traffic is porn.
>>
>>Consider this; 30 people who want to find porn go and access
>>www.playboy.com, www.penthourse.com, www.sizzle.com.

>How about if this is to installed in an educational institution? There
>would be some level of "censorship" required.

Why? We don't censor anything.

>For this, it's probably quite usable.

I would imagine it's fraught with the same problems wherever you try it.

Cheers,
Marty.
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