[49273] in Cypherpunks
free speach and the government
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike McNally)
Mon Feb 5 08:51:17 1996
From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 07:43:11 -0600
To: Stephan Mohr <stephan.mohr@uni-tuebingen.de>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19960203234059.2eb7ed1c@mailserv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Stephan Mohr writes:
> Well, maybe my imagination isn't strong enough to make my point. But do
> you fighter for free speech, in principle, think that nothing, really
> nothing, shouldn't be prevented of being published? And by being
> published, I mean published in the net, not at loompanics (who knows
> loompanics?).
Well, if it's OK to publish via Loompanics I don't see what your point
is. Anybody psychotic enough to poison a municipal water supply won't
be deterred by being denied on-line access to information.
Remember that far, far more people walk in and out of bookstores and
libraries every day than log into a computer connected to the
Internet.
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