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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: Phreaks indicted
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.195456.9918@eff.org>
- Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <01GMWSRMC6TC8WWANR@delphi.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:54:56 GMT
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- In article <01GMWSRMC6TC8WWANR@delphi.com> NEWSDAY1@delphi.com writes:
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- >Certainly it's possible that some of the media camped outside the
- >door got the address from a print publication, but any reporter
- >(or reader, for that matter) worth his or her salt could easily
- >have obtained the defendant's address from law enforcement. If anything,
- >publication of the address may have saved some reporters a phone call.
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- The truly chilling hypothetical case is one in which the newspaper
- publishes the address of a defendant in a particularl horrifying or
- disturbing crime. For example, if a person is charged with the rape of a
- child, some citizens may choose to take the law into their own hands--when
- one balances the news value of publishing the defendant's address against
- the increased possibility of assault or vandalism, it's hard to justify
- publishing the address.
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- I should add at this point that I speak as a former newspaper editor. This
- is the sort of problem I often had to deal with.
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- --Mike
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- Mike Godwin, |"Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a law-
- mnemonic@eff.org | breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every
- (617) 864-0665 | man to become a law unto himself. It invites anarchy."
- EFF, Cambridge | --Brandeis, J., dissenting in Olmstead v. U.S.
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