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9 Oct 2024 20:48:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Now Australia too...  
From: Mueen Nawaz
Date: 31 Oct 2008 13:34:47
Message: <490b41b7@news.povray.org>
somebody wrote:
> I believe that child porn is way overhyped, but on the other hand, has there
> ever been an abuse of the censorship implemented against it - has any anti

	Against child porn specifically, nothing off the top of my head.

	However, stuff like cameras all over the streets of UK are openly being
used for much beyond what they were installed for.

	Besides, the question may be somewhat irrelevant. Will you accept
random searches into your house (along with all the computers in it) for
illegal paraphernalia (or even just for child porn possession)?

> child porn law turned into a tool of political oppression? Everybody seems
> to make the slippery slope argument, but is it really valid? Governments
> that are able to force their way down the slippery slope to oppression don't
> need an excuse to implement censorship in the first place, they just
> implement it. Why not oppose taxes too? If a government can take 25% of your

	I highly disagree. What you say is true for some places. In others,
doing it in stages is simpler.

	Remember, they only monitor your phone calls if you're calling
internationally...
	
-- 
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard-disk.


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