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From: cycy@isl1.ri.cmu.edu (Christopher Young)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Towards making hosts and their admin free from a criminal offence
Message-ID: <277@isl1.ri.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 22-May-86 20:49:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: isl1.277
Posted: Thu May 22 20:49:18 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 25-May-86 17:13:51 EDT
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>>>...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:)
>>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.
                           ^^^^^^^^^
>By this do you mean that to respect some other person's point of view,
>is cowardly ?  Your posting would seem to suggest that the only people
>worth paying any attention to are those that can inflict some damage
>on you if you ignore them.
>There are countries, such as France, with a very different set of laws
>from those used in the USA. It is I believe illegal to send personal
>details across French borders by Electronic means. Although I don't agree
>with this rule it wasn't passed by the French legislature as a personal
>challange to every other country in the world. They did it as the elected

Perhaps France (or whatever country), or the sites within that country,
should be responsible for the content of what is transmitted into their
country (ie., they should censor it themselves). For one thing, the logistics
of preventing material which may be against the law in some country would be
mind-boggling. Also, laws are dynamic, so somebody would have to be constantly
checking newly passed and ammeded legislations in all countries the Net
reaches. Finally, countries have no legal domain outside their territories
anyway, so it really is their problem.
>>	-Barry Shein, Boston University

>Craig.
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					-- Chris.
					   Intelligent Systems Lab
					   Robotics Institute
					   Carnegie-Mellon University.
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