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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
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Date: Wed, 21-May-86 19:32:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 21 19:32:14 1986
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Reply-To: isaac@mulga.OZ (Isaac Balbin)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne
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I have some more questions arising from the recent articles and mail I received.
(1)	Who says that USENET is going to mirror US law?
(2)	What if the majority of countries who get Usenet do not 
	allow, say, racist material? Do the US posters then have to comply?
(3)	Are we going to have a head count and see which country has the most
	people who would like to adopt US law as the supremo usenet law maker?
(4)	Are we going to see who PAYS for the news? Would we then have to
	possibly bend to the whims of some company(s) who might have 
	stricter/laxer views than the majority?
(5)	Answer this question truthfully to yourself. An article comes
	across in, say, net.politics which states simply
	"I hate all Mordorians*, I would like to form a club, please
	mail me if you want to support the extinction of Mordorians"
					goebbels@nazi.hell
	Okay, freedom of speech, you now know about these people, can
	react to them etc etc. But, does USENET need this? This I believe
	is another question. Is it not?
			
* fictitious
				Isaac Balbin
PS This is definitely *NOT* an anti-US diatribe, so please don't react as
   if it was.