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children on the Internet, why should the rest of adult
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Keith Styles -- 12/09/03
Prohibitionists love using FUD to justify their moralist attitudes. If parents
cannot control the behavior of their children on the Internet, why should the
rest of adult society have to put up with restrictive laws which are in any event
almost impossibly to police.
Please spare us from the nonsense trotted out by Alston, Harridine and other
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