Xref: utzoo talk.politics.misc:70869 comp.org.eff.talk:2560 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!altitude!elevia!alain From: alain@elevia.UUCP (W.A.Simon) Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Growing MJ (Advice sought) Message-ID: <1991Jun7.102950.1658@elevia.UUCP> Date: 7 Jun 91 10:29:50 GMT Article-I.D.: elevia.1991Jun7.102950.1658 References: <1991Jun2.091410.23785@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <20369@cs.utexas.edu> <16801@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Jun4.184604.27133@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Organization: The W.A.Simon Wild Life Fund Lines: 20 In stanton@lurch.stanford.edu (Scott Stanton) writes: >In article <1991Jun4.184604.27133@rodan.acs.syr.edu> dbarberi@rodan.acs.syr.edu (I will *not* justify my actions) writes: >[...] > So what IS the difference between printed media and electronic media? >One big difference is that the contents of electronic media sometimes >looks like print and sometimes looks like speech. And since which it >is often depends on "tricky details" like context, the legal system >seems to have decided to punt on the issue for now and afford it >neither set of protections. Interesting point that leads to the next questions: Why should there be a distinction between speech and the printed word? Isn't it an artificial split? Does it correspond to an objective difference? >--Scott Stanton (stanton@cs.stanford.edu) -- William "Alain" Simon UUCP: alain@elevia.UUCP