Re: GEN: LM_NET not "sad, lonely world in cyberspace"

[Gayle Hodur <ghodur@REDSHIFT.COM>]

My feelings, exactly. New inventions always provide a way for people who
have problems anyway to exercise their bad judgement using a new tool. We
spend a lot of time trying to protect people from themselves, as if they
are too innocent to know any better. With children, this is probably true,
to an extent, and they need guidance on the internet. But for grown adults,
anyone who makes foolish choices is on their own and would probably have
found some other way to make a bad choice. The Internet won't ruin anyone
if he/she doesn't allow it to.

At 09:40 AM 8/31/98 -0400, Elizabeth Findley wrote:
> I can't really say that the Internet ruined her
>life... as she was pretty messed up before the internet even existed.
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Gayle Hodur, District Librarian         Snail Mail: ATTN: Gayle Hodur
Soledad Unified School Dist.                        Main Street Middle School
Soledad, CA 93960                                   441 Main Street
ghodur@redshift.com                                 Soledad, CA  93960

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