Hillary Clinton and the Cybersitter genre

[Nick Arnett]

At 07:57 AM 3/7/97 -0800, Paul Hower wrote:

>Suppose the client device (browser, terminal, appliance, etc.) had a sign-in
>mechanism to identify who is using it. Suppose that ID was associated with a
>bonafide legal, demographic and psychographic profile of that user. Suppose
>that user had a simple interface to regulate which parts of that profile
>would be revealled to a messaged or visited party on the net. Suppose those
>parties had a similar feature, allowing messages and visits from anyone who
>revealled the minimum disclosure specifications for access. Now suppose
>parents set the limits of disclosure for their children.
>
>What's wrong with this picture?

What's wrong?  It's a straw man, that's what's wrong.

Nick

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