XPost: alt.slack   
   From: targeting@OMCL.mil   
      
   On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:01:41 GMT, "ghost"  wrote:   
      
   }   
   } "Modemac"  wrote in message   
   } news:b71f73eb.0401190455.605be993@posting.google.com...   
   } > Godwin's Law states, "As a Usenet discussion thread lengthens, the   
   } > probability of Hitler or Nazis being invoked approaches one."   
   } >   
   } > These days, it seems more likely that someone will invoke the specter   
   } > of "child pornography" as the most vile, evil, disgusting subject for   
   } > comparison imaginable, rather than Nazis.   
   } >   
   } > For years, the net.kooks have accused anyone who disagrees with them   
   } > of being "pedophiles."  The authors of various laws enacted to control   
   } > Internet content have claimed that these laws will "protect the   
   } > children" from the evils of pornography.  The arguments against music   
   } > file sharing inevitably point to the fact that child porn is on the   
   } > Gnutella network as a reason to shut it all down.  And whenever   
   } > someone wants to attack a subject they don't like, they find a way to   
   } > compare it to child pornography.   
   } >   
   } > Nazis are passe, largely thanks to Godwin's Law.  But since human   
   } > nature is what it is, then there's probably some similar meme already   
   } > in existence to note the tendency of people to use "kiddie porn" as   
   } > the most hideous, offensive, and inhuman subject imaginable as a basis   
   } > for their arguments.   
   }   
   } Why would a child molester like you want to know?   
   }   
      
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