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- From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: legal question re anonymity online
- Message-ID: <BETSYS.93Jan8125312@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 17:53:12 GMT
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston
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- In-Reply-To: mkj@world.std.com's message of 7 Jan 93 23: 31:07 GMT
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- For one thing, no-one makes you post. You could choose to use another
- service which provides anonymity, or you could choose to not post
- controversial opinions.
- If a radio station airs a controversial interview, and the
- interviewee is later shot at by a member of the enraged public, the
- radio station isn't responsible. They might be if they broke a promise
- of anonymity, or broadcast your address without your consent.
- For that matter, you don't have to list your name in the phone book.
- If you ask to have an unlisted address and that information is
- released by some data bank, seems to me that you would have a case
- against *them* (and lots of eager defenders...check out
- comp.society.privacy as well as this group)
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