Re2: SCN Board Candidates and alt.sex.your.worst.nightmare

[James Russell]

Hi Lucy; 
Well said, and thank you. James!

James/of/Renton
jamesr at scn.org               scn.org=Seattle community network

On Sun, 4 Jun 1995, Lucys wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Jun 1995, Janos Szablya wrote:
> > 
> > I have no answers that are clear cut hear only we have issues that 
> > are greater than this thread that need to be addressed first and 
> > this issue should go on a back burner until it can be thought 
> > through. I feel the same way about violence/bombmaking it's just 
> > not the time when we are so far from being at the end of the first 
> > chapter of SCN.
> 
>   Well said. SCN is in the process of being a separate entity, and
>   needs to focus on that first. First things first.
> 
>   These other issues, such as making SCN's commitment to all the
>   alt.sex.* forums as some *grand celebrated cause* for 'free speech'
>   are a *red herring*, which divert attention away
>   from establishing SCN itself. 
> 
>   (This whole topic was diverting attention away from the elections.
>    It was one of the things that was making the elections into a
>    3-ring circus!) 
> 
>   
> >   
> > 
> > On 3 Jun 1995, Kurt Cockrum wrote:
> > 
> > > So, let the user sign a disclaimer saying they are over 18 and that they
> > > will not allow young folk access to their terminal.  That way, if they
> 
>     Any *MINOR* child could sign a statement stating they are an adult.
>     SCN would not be providing 'due diligence' if they did not add some
>     administrative feature to *verify* that the person was in fact an
>     adult. How SCN could do this, I'm not sure.
>     However, it could be an administrative nightmare.
> > > 
> > > }	Offence to other members
> > > 
> > > People who get offended by commonplace activities
>                                *********** 
> 
>     The most popular alt.sex.* forum is probably alt.sex.stories.
>     These *commonplace* (???) stories include:
> 
>     incest, pedophilia, rape, bondage, S/M, and snuff stories.
> 
>     The time to debate the merits of the *usefulness* of the
>     alt.sex.* forums is *later on*. 
>     I will be one of those people who will debate AGAINST these forums.
>     Until later...
>     
> --
>   Lucy S.                   lbs at aa.net  
>   Seattle, Washington  USA
> 
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