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>> WASHINGTON DC (Reuter) - The US called Sunday for improved >>management of the Internet to prevent people seeing pornographic >>material on the world computer network. I feel so much better, having the burden of deciding what I can see or read lifted from my weary shoulders. Maybe a ban on politicians appearing in the media? (Some might consider it an obscenity.)
My original post, "US calls for measures against Internet porn" was a satire. The entire point was that, by changing a few words in the "China calls for measures against Internet porn" story, a statement by a totalitarian communist regime could be made to look like official US policy. Obviously, the project was a success, as people are taking it seriously in spite of the fact that it had telltale clues, and that the original source was revealed. The exact changes were: BEIJING -> WASHINGTON DC China -> The US State Council -> Clinton administration's State Council Communist Party -> Republican Party Xinhua news agency -> the Associated Press personal computers in China -> modems in the US That's it. None of the actual words quoted from the statement were changed. Frightening, isn't it?