On Tue, 11 Oct 1994, Christopher A. Stewart wrote: > I beg your pardon.. Where have you been the past 20 years if you think > US law is confined with in it's borders.. And by the way the US is not > the only country that extends its laws beyond it's borders.. Look at > european countries prosecuting their citizens for using child > prostitudes in SE Asia.. > YEs, but US Law does not extend into areas where things are legal. THE US cannot prosecute a person from another country for doing something in his home country that is LEGAL there .... it is only when the info reaches the US That it is illegal to distribute. With your logic -- no anti-Moslem or pornographic material should be allowed on the internet -- as it will reach Iran where that material is strictly illegal. Ah, but you are posting in the USA or Europe -- oh, so it does matter where the poster is and what his local laws are... well, in that case, i ask you what is the differecnce between an Iranian posting material that is illegal in the USA and an American posting material thatt is illegal in Iran ... assuming that each posts in his native coutry? JS _____ __ /\___ \ /\ \ \/__/\ \ ___ ____ __ _____ \ \ \___ _\ \ \ / __`\ /',__\ /'__`\/\ '__`\\ \ _ `\ Joseph Steinberg /\ \_\ \/\ \L\ \/\__, `\/\ __/\ \ \L\ \\ \ \ \ \ The Courant Institute \ \____/\ \____/\/\____/\ \____\\ \ ,__/ \ \_\ \_\ steinber@slinky.nyu.edu \/___/ \/___/ \/___/ \/____/ \ \ \/ \/_/\/_/ +1-201-833-9674 \ \_\ \/_/