Some speech issues that come to mind which, I sometimes wonder, how they would have gone down today:
* The 6.001 porn
* The ghetto party
* The Reg Day porn (particularly Deep Throat, but many)
* The Visualizing Cultures display (with CSSA opposition)
* Some 10% of the day to day traffic on senior-house@, bexley-minus-fascists@, and ec-discuss@
Norms around speech have evolved a lot even as the fundamentals of ethics and laws on the electronic frontier have stayed the same. I often think that folks in the 80s and 90s enjoyed, for better or worse, considerable latitude in their speech which wouldn't fly today.
* The 6.001 porn
* The ghetto party
* The Reg Day porn (particularly Deep Throat, but many)
* The Visualizing Cultures display (with CSSA opposition)
* Some 10% of the day to day traffic on senior-house@, bexley-minus-fascists@, and ec-discuss@
Norms around speech have evolved a lot even as the fundamentals of ethics and laws on the electronic frontier have stayed the same. I often think that folks in the 80s and 90s enjoyed, for better or worse, considerable latitude in their speech which wouldn't fly today.