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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
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Subject: Re: STARGATE (READ THIS!)
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 10:44:56 EST
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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...

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D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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