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From: isaac@mulga.OZ (Isaac Balbin)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Towards making hosts and their admin free from a criminal offence
Message-ID: <1259@mulga.OZ>
Date: Mon, 19-May-86 19:52:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: mulga.1259
Posted: Mon May 19 19:52:02 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 23-May-86 05:42:12 EDT
References: <611@bu-cs.UUCP> <164@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <20663@styx.UUCP>
Reply-To: isaac@mulga.OZ (Isaac Balbin)
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In article <20663@styx.UUCP> mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch) writes:
! In article <164@comp.lancs.ac.uk> craig@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Craig Wylie) writes:
! > . . .
! 
! > Simply because your actions aren't illegal where they are perpetrated
! > dosen't mean that you shouldn't consider their legality in all the places
! > where they are manifest.
! > 
! > The concept of 
! > 
! > 	"I'll do what I like because I'm bigger than you and you
! > 	 can't get me"
! > 
! > has always been the cry of the bully and lout, these concepts 
! > are out of place in an educated environment.
! 
! Oh, balderdash. Mr. Shein's hostility toward self-censorship, which I
! share, is rooted not in "might makes right" but in the special place 
! that freedom of expression occupies in the American soul. I'm deeply sorry 
! that Europeans and others do not share the unbroken tradition of democracy 
! and personal rights that we have enjoyed in the USA for the past two-plus 
! centuries. But I'll be damned if we should let some brain-damaged French
! politicians tell us what we can and cannot say on the net and what
! subjects are legally proper to discuss. I'm with Barry.
! 

Without launching into a diatribe regarding your obviously all-american
super-duper razza-mataz innate abundance of democracy and freedom to
the exclusion of any lowly non-american bigoted freedom hater and
democracy destroyer, which I do NOT think is the issue here, 
let me just say this. The facts are: 
(1)	You CAN say what you want.
(2)	It MIGHT be illegal in some other country
(3)	Is it you or "usenet" or the system admin or whoever who is the
	vehicle for the illegal publication of your material?
(4)	If it is NOT you who is responsible, why should anyone else be?
Please address this issue and not America Vs the_rest_of_the_world