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- From: mjp@austin.ibm.com (Michael Phelps)
- Subject: Re: the Right of Privacy (was Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Encryption?)
- Originator: mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1992Nov06.144246.31506@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 14:42:46 GMT
- Reply-To: mjp@vnet.ibm.com (Michael J. Phelps)
- References: <1992Oct29.210436.19724@netcom.com> <1992Oct30.105044.4526@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Oct30.165406.5853@netcom.com> <1992Nov6.075448.21716@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: IBM Kingston NY
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- In article <1992Nov6.075448.21716@news.cs.indiana.edu>, Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
- |> Thus said strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight):
- |> >In response to a comment that the Feds have the right to regulate
- |> >communications, Jyrki quotes the first amendment back at me.
- |> >
- |> >But it depends on interpretation. Regulating channels is not the
- |> >same as regulating speech. A strict constructionist would say
- |> >that one can say what one likes into the air via one's unaided
- |> >voice. But as soon as technical means intervene (such as the use of
- |> >a megaphone in a public park, or the use of e-mail) the government
- |> >has the right to regulate those means. One is still free to talk,
- |> >and thus the protection isn't violated.
- |>
- |> >By the way, even strict construction has limits, as in the Supreme
- |> >Court decision that the right to free speech does not extend to
- |> >falsely crying "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
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- This came up in t.p.g, and this answer was posted. I think it sums this up
- quite well..
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- From: gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
- Subject: Re: So... Why have a standing army?
- Message-ID: <71233@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 14 Oct 92 17:52:13 GMT
- References: <84952@bcsaic.boeing.com> <1992Oct14.154245.14297@watson.ibm.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- [edited]
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- No, no, no. Look the 1st doesn't even enter into in any such court case.
- You would be on trial for unlawful injury to others assuming anyone was
- injured. The 1st amendment in fact does allow you to say anything you
- damn well please, anywhere you please. It is up to legal code separate
- from that to deal with accusations of slander, libel, and similar
- "damage to others" categories.
-
- [edited]
-
- |> --
- |> Marc VanHeyningen mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu MIME & RIPEM accepted
- |>
- |>
- |> Patriotism is, in fact, the *first* refuge of the scoundrel.
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- --
- Michael Phelps, (external) mjp@vnet.ibm.com ..
- (internal) mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com .. mjp at kgnvmy
- (and last but not least a disclaimer) These opinions are mine..
-