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From: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Net.Porn ?
Keywords: porn, underage, lawsuit
Message-ID: <14977@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 4 Oct 88 06:32:52 GMT
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In-reply-to: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)

In article <537@optilink.UUCP>, cramer@optilink (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>In article <14877@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes:

>>   It's quite conceivable that some people might be concerned that
>> reading ca.politics will expose their little darlings to the
>> sinister views of Clayton Cramer on the merits of burger
>> flipping.

>Ah, but the courts have long recognized that political debate is
>protected by the First Amendment, and even the population sort of
>agrees -- not at all the same with sexually oriented materials.

  I thought the point was that people might sue, not how likely
they would be to win. If Joe Zitt drops out of High School to
take up a lucrative career as a hamburger engineer, what happens
if Mom and Dad decide to sue and find a lawyer ready to take
their money? People can sue about practically anything, as far as
my (admitedly slight) knowledge goes.
--
ucbvax!garnet!gsmith          Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
"I am quite prepared to prove in court that I am neither stupid nor insane."
quoted from ONE FOR THE BOOKS, the authorized biography of Captain Carnage.