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From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Towards making hosts and their admin free from a criminal offence
Message-ID: <136@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 16-May-86 11:42:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: stracs.136
Posted: Fri May 16 11:42:03 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 23-May-86 22:35:02 EDT
References: <611@bu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
Organization: Department of Computer Science at Strathclyde University, UK.
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In article <611@bu-cs.UUCP> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP writes:
>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.

I see - it's OK for you to do what you like on the net as long as it doesn't
break US law, even if your action is illegal elsewhere on the net. What you
are advocating is absolute selfishness - no respect for anything but yourself.
How would you feel if I used the net to do something legal in the UK, but was
illegal in the US? I'm sure you would be most unhappy at that. The network
won't remain international for long if everyone took your attitude. Maybe
that's what you want - or would you prefer everyone to conform to Boston
state law and let your government legislate for the whole world?

		Jim