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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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