Re: [WW] Censorship Test

["Sandor Silverman" <sandor_@hotmail.com>]

>I dont know what someone was complaining about but apperently you can use 
>both words.  This is a hisorical game.

You are missing the point.
It's not what you, yourself, post, or what the game is about, or free speech 
issues in the United States.

It's about the fact that the governments of France and some other European 
countries have said that their ISPs (Internet Service Providers) are legally 
responsible for all the content they host. This includes webpages and e-mail 
that passes through their systems. In order to not break the law, the ISPs 
filter out the illegal material, which means that List members in those 
countries will not receive any material i.e. email, that contains "banned" 
language.

The use of codes like Hi---- and Na--- are attempts to evade the filtering 
software.

It's a technical matter, similar to Napster users who listed their songs in 
Pig Latin to evade Napster's title filtering software.

The Internet is international, and extends to areas that have radically 
different laws than we do in the US. Use of some types of language is 
illegal there, and the filters don't really care about the circumstances or 
context that the words are used in.

If use of these terms is preventing some List members from participating in 
discussion, then we should be good neighbors and follow the conventions that 
allow them be here.

Sandor



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