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From: mrmu@leland.Stanford.EDU (Marianne Mueller)
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Subject: Re: Growing MJ (Advice sought)
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Date: 11 Jun 91 02:18:28 GMT
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|> >>As the PHREAK trials have shown there is a difference between printed media
|> >>and electronic media. Though one can also look up some scientific periodicals
|> >>(Botanical Gazette comes to mind) and find article about growing it.
|> >   So what IS the difference between printed media and electronic media? 
|> 
|> 	There isn't one.  But the politicos are trying very hard to
|> 	pretend there is, so they can try - again - to pass laws
|> 	which aim to reducing rights and freedoms. 

I dunno, I think there are many differences between print and electronic media.
Electronic media is much more democratic and could be made available to everyone,
cheaply.  The same isn't true of newspapers and book publishing houses.  (the press is 
free to those who can afford one etc)

In terms of the first amendment, sure, in that sense print and electronic media
share protection.   (radical idea: make the bill of rights Law.)   

Electronic media is more malleable - that's why I object to Lotus Marketplace
on a CD but I object less to my local merchant trying to be clever and canvass
my neighborhood.  It's cheap and easy for someone to search a CD loaded with
personal private info - I don't think it's cheap and easy to similarly search 
a 12-inch stack of paper that contains the same information, and so probably 
no one does it.  Now maybe I'm just exposing my ignorance of the direct
marketing industry here.      Has anyone done a study of intrusive marketing
campaigns?  I haven't been hit by anything other than the crudest marketing, 
but then I've never bought a house (maybe that's the purchase that pushes 
a consumer into the Targeted Group.)  I imagine that with something like
Lotus' CD, intrusive tactics become the norm.