Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.stargate,net.followup Subject: Re: STARGATE (READ THIS!) Message-ID: <510@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 10:44:56 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.510 Posted: Thu Jan 17 10:44:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 10:31:33 EST References: <504@vortex.UUCP> Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.news:2989 net.news.stargate:34 net.followup:4351 <> Welcome to the age of paranoia. So STARGATE is going to mean an end to democracy, civilization, and McDonald's huh? I don't buy that. No one (who is going to be taken seriously, anyway) has advocated censorship of political views or anything of the sort. What has been proposed is nothing more onerous than the removal of slander (which OUGHT to be removed) and obscenity (which I've nothing against but which probably should not appear in a public forum such as this). In return for this mild bit of sanitizing we get a better, faster network that costs less. Sounds good to me. I sympathize with Lauren's posting. He is sorely set upon and accused of everything from milking money from the project (which he is not, and which he would be entitled to even if he were) to opposing civil liberties. Here he is doing a whale of a lot of work for nothing in return except a few encouraging words and a mound of wild accusations. If he drops the project I can't blame him, but I hope he doesn't. One of the penalties of actually doing something is becoming a target for the hysterical. Maybe that's why we don't have any better politicians than we have... -- D Gary Grady Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-3695 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary