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Spencer Thiel spen at fictiondepartment.com
Fri May 5 14:33:45 CDT 2000


At 12:43 PM 5/5/00 -0500, Eric D. Dixon wrote:

>It's always a good idea to check out rumors before passing them on, and to
>remember that censorship isn't the answer to speech you don't like; the
>real answer is more, true, speech.

Confirming that something is false is quite difficult.  However there are 
people who actually try to do this.  The best site I have found is at 
<http://www.snopes.com>.  If you do find something that is supsect in your 
inbox, check there first.

Doug Wrote:

 >Does Amazon.com sell blatantly
 >pornographic books (the kind you buy in adult bookstores)?  If not, why
 >not?  If they choose not  to sell pornography (and some obvious keywords
 >don't seem to pull up the kinds of books I'm thinking of from their catalog
 >database), why do they choose to sell anti-semitic books?

Amazon.com does in fact sell porn.  Try typing in Playboy and see what you 
get.  Nothing is holier than the almighty dollar.




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