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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Towards making hosts and their admin free from a criminal offence
Message-ID: <611@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-May-86 18:34:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: bu-cs.611
Posted: Tue May 13 18:34:04 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 15-May-86 06:20:03 EDT
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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>From: isaac@mulga.OZ (Isaac Balbin)
>...Consider a user who posts an article (be it locally
>or world-wide) the material of which, might be considered to be a 
>criminal offence in some country...
>...(suggests that the posting program should prompt:)
>"Do you accept the fact that if the material in your article is 
>considered illegal in any country which it reaches, it is entirely your
>responsibility, and your undertaking etc ... [y/n]?"
>If the answer given is "no", then the program should not proceed.

Millions in charity but not one penny in tribute

is this guy kidding? Who's gonna come and get us from these hypothetical
foreign countries? Hey guy, you just crossed the line where "liberalism"
and "tolerance" stop dead, I (and I hope most of my compatriots) don't
"tolerate" the tyranny you describe, that's not a "cosmopolitan" view as
you seem to imply, that's cowardice.

If residents of other countries think it's unfair that they may get
cut off because USENET violates some disgusting internal law they
have, tell them to go speak to their disgusting internal lawmakers, I
ain't gonna wear no foreign gag. Yes, I feel sorry for them, but not
sorry enough to compromise *my* freedoms, that's for their citizens to
fix.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University