Reply #47: I recall an old story about AOL, back before they actually "went online" [View All]

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This was back during the days AOL was an "online service" and not an "internet service provider". It may be apocryphal, but there was this story that AOL had a list of 90+ "dirty words" you couldn't say or you would get a TOS violation. The story goes that one of the words was "breast", and that they autodeleted the entire American Breast Cancer Society forum because of "breast" in its title.

This is where we will end up if these rules are put into place.

(By the way, it was the first example image I posted upthread that zazen got his knickers in a twist over, but his discomfort with it only serves to prove the point: a great many informative, educational, and especially artistic works will vanish if any two-tiered internet division is foisted upon us.

That would most certainly include blogs and forums such as this one.)