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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Re: Towards making hosts and their admin free from a criminal offence
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Date: Fri, 23-May-86 00:13:53 EDT
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This discussion has ignored a fact which makes the whole argument moot.  The
structure of most of the USA section of usenet is *VERY* anarchic.  There is
literally nothing preventing a neo-nazi from posting something perfectly
dreadful in net.unix, and thence to be transmitted all over the world.  Even
with the proposed reorganization, this will not change.

As long as this situation obtains, the problem cannot be one of preventing
the messages from being generated, but to keep them from leaving the country
(or if you like, preventing them from entering some other country).

How long will this situation remain?  Considering the fierce resistance to
the kind of centralized review, I would guess things will stay this way for
a while.  Americans (as various participants in this discussion have
demonstrated) tend to be adamant about their free speech rights, and they
don't take too well to suggestions/demands from abroad to limit these
rights, especially when the proffered reason is simply to comply with a
foreign law.

C. Wingate