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From: sl195@cc.usu.edu (A banana is not a toy)
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Subject: Re: Your Rights under the 1976 Copyright Act
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.120542.42707@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 90 18:05:42 GMT
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In article <1655@beguine.UUCP>, heidia@samba.acs.unc.edu (heidi aycock) writes:
> Were we protecting our first ammendment right to free expression, we
> could not choose the topics that we want to allow and not allow. For
> example, if we allow speech that tells how to build an atomic bomb we
> cannot forbid speech that tells how to crack copy protection schemes.
> Content-based censorship is rarely tolerated by the Supreme Court
> (Obscenity is probably a good example of when content-based censorship
> is tolerated). As someone mentioned to me recently on a different topic,
> the only way you can censor expression is through time/place/manner
> restrictions -- and I think they call it "regulating," not "censoring"
> (two different hoods for the same executioner, if you ask me).
> 
> On the other hand, just because we have the right to free expression
> doesn't mean we should feel obligated to say anything and everything. If
> you choose not to say something because it might endanger the net,
> that's discretion not self censorship. And discretion is something to be
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> valued.
  ^^^^^^

Vivat!  



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