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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!world!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.osf.misc,comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.secur Subject: Re: Communications Decency Act may corrupt protocols Date: 5 May 1996 19:58:52 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4mj19s$d6i@hops.entertain.com> References: <4ki6d6$ln7@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu> <4kj36o$2h8@tom.amherst.edu> <BFRIEDMA.96May4223337@spam.oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.45.153.241 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.protocols.tcp-ip:44330 comp.unix.bsd.misc:913 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3508 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18779 comp.unix.osf.misc:3082 comp.unix.sco.misc:17262 In article <BFRIEDMA.96May4223337@spam.oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>, bfriedma@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Boris A. Friedman) says: > >In article <4maips$sp0@hops.entertain.com> dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) writes: > >> >[snip] >> >The US is re-inventing Soviet Union control policies, if we co-operate >> >the politicians will make compromises -> we get the disease.. >> > >> >VesA >> >> "Freedom of Speech". HAH. I am embarrassed to be an American. I >> apologize, to the rest of the World for the Buttheads that exist here. >> >> It is probably time to take this topic to another newsgroup... > >You know, I am a citizen of Soviet Union (literally - because I >haven't yet exchanged my passport for the Russian one). I'm telling >you that you probably shouldn't be ashamed to be an American, because >you haven't seen how ridiculous things used to be/in some ways still >are over there (so, for instance, I fear a little bit that this post >might affect me somehow). But I'm shocked and amazed at what Americans >are trying to do. I think some people just need to read a little more >history. It all starts from good intentions... > I very much agree with Boris' post. Thanks for pointing out that those who fail to learn from History are doomed to repeat it.