Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: coming out at work, and misc. Message-ID: <40400020@uiucdcs> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 13:04:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.40400020 Posted: Tue Sep 24 13:04:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Sep-85 08:03:29 EDT References: <70@ucdavis.UUCP> Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #R:ucdavis.UUCP:-7000:uiucdcs:40400020:000:1245 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan Sep 24 12:04:00 1985 >In article <70@ucdavis.UUCP> up547413042@ucdavis.UUCP (up547413042) writes: >> First, about pornography. Regardless of of whether it is sexist or not, >>censorship of pornography is a threat to the 1st Amendment and can eventually >>lead to the encoachment upon the free speech rights of, among others, gay >>people. > >Do you think that there should be censorship of neo-nazi propaganda? Anti-gay >propaganda? >Pornography is anti-woman propaganda. I don't believe in government-controlled >censorship but I do believe in people-controlled censorship. I think that >the people must do what they can to prevent the distribution of pornography, >nazi literature, and so on. More important than the right to free speech is >the right to any kind of meaningful life at all, the right not to have people >preaching hatred of you. And let's not forget feminist propaganda. Or socialist propaganda. Or anything that Jerry Falwell decides is un-American. I'm all for free speach, except, of course, for those people who disagree with me. Scott McEwan {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan "I know what you are. Nut. Screwball. Flake. Lunatic. Fruitcake. Bats in the attic. Psycho. All your dogs aren't barking." "Are too! Are too! Woof! Woof!"