From: Kihe Blackeagle Area: Mundane To: MacFinn 21 Mar 95 21:01:52 Subject: Re: Greetings UpdReq Ma> Wish I were there, gotta be better than here. At least the 1st Ma> ammendment is still in effect in TX. Hey, we're having to fight down here too. Would be a little easier if there weren't so many *stupid* board operators carrying adult materials where kids can access ... not that I am personally too happy with placing age limits on things, either. I cannot abide or tolerate censorship on any basis when it comes right down to it. Who am I, or who would the censor be, and by what measure of which truth would the decisions be made? Supreme Court rulings to the contrary, there can no longer be such a thing as narrowly defined "community standards" in the general life and arrangement of the modern world. Perhaps the Amish, Mennonites, and similar "withdrawn" clusters might successfully argue the existence of a geographically defined community -- the rest of us are more and more citizens of the extended world opened by modern communications and technologies of travel. Without community-based standards, what then is to be the basis of the rules governing pornography? Who is to be able to *know* whether or not any given denizen of cyberspace is an "adult"? Enough rant for now. There is a definite defense for the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America when push comes to shove. It's called the 2nd Amendment. Pax ... Kihe (the DreamSinger Bard) ... They got the library at Alexandria, but they won't get mine! 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718