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To: The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
While I see your point, kiddy porn doesn't make it to censership. It is illegal to create. (Although there are always gray areas, like America's Funniest Home Videos showing topless kids running around in a sprinkler.) Drawing the line at the nose/fist point is something we can all agree on, I would hope. Where the nose is, i.e. the age of consent, can be argued, but once established, ...

Kiddy porn is a straw man almost everytime it is used. But I'll give it to you. Yes we all censure, but it should be the last refuge, not the first line of defense.
21 posted on 07/31/2003 9:01:07 AM PDT by KCmark (I am NOT a partisan.)
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To: KCmark
While I see your point, kiddy porn doesn't make it to censership. It is illegal to create.

OK, you're technically right, but the common meaning of "censorship" has evolved to include prior restraint.

In any case, prior restraint is even "worse" than censorship.

Kiddy porn is a straw man almost everytime it is used. But I'll give it to you. Yes we all censure, but it should be the last refuge, not the first line of defense.

OK. That's all I was going for, was the idea that we should be debating what should be censored, not whether censorship should exist.

27 posted on 07/31/2003 9:11:53 AM PDT by The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
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