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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicarious Oyster)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: News and Privacy, etc.
Message-ID: <1263@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 11:42:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 11:42:55 1987
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Keywords: news fascist paranoia


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   All this talk about privacy has reminded me of something sorta related
that I've wondered about before.  We all know there are people out there
who use USENET to intentionally annoy other people.  USENET transmission
is done over 'phone lines.  In the US at least, there are federal (and in
most cases, state) laws governing using the telephone for the purpose of
harassment.  Does anybody have any comments as to the applicability of
those laws to USENET annoyance?  I realize that the situation is complicated
slightly by the fact that the telephone is not used directly, but I can
just picture those laws being used by somebody being electronically
harassed.
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 - Joel Plutchak
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